38: The UPS - Uninterrupted Power Source That Drives Innovation at Vertiv

Running out of good ideas is probably one of the most frustrating things for an innovator. After all, our job is all about bringing new and exciting things to the table. So how do we get out of a creative block and generate new ideas for innovation? For Greg Ratcliff, Chief Innovation Officer at Vertiv, the key lies in diversity. When we collaborate with people from different backgrounds and expertise, that's when innovation happens. In this episode of Innovation Storytellers, Greg talks about how mergers and acquisitions help companies innovate and how to manage the communication and cultural differences between companies who are in these types of relationships. He also talks about how they scout for innovative ideas at Vertiv and how companies can cultivate a resilience to failure.

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Did you ever wonder how an innovation got to its finish line? How innovators saw the future, made a product, and created change – in our world and in their companies? I did. Innovation Storytellers invites changemakers to describe how they created their innovation and just as important – THE STORIES – that made us fall in love with them. Come learn how great innovations need great stories to make them move around the world and how to become a better storyteller in the process. I’m Susan Lindner, the Innovation Storyteller. But I wasn’t always. I’ve been a wannabe revolutionary, an epidemiologist at the CDC and an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand helping to turn former sex workers into entrepreneurs. Trained as an anthropologist and the Founder of Emerging Media, I’ve spent the last twenty years working with innovators from 60+ countries. Ranging from cutting edge startups to Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, Olayan, and nine foreign governments, helping their leaders to tell their stories and teaching them how to become incredible advocates for their innovations. Great innovation stories make change possible. They let us step into a future we can’t see yet. I started this podcast to shine a light on our generation of great innovators, to learn how they brought their innovation to life and the stories they told to bring them to the world.