CANADIAN WIRELESS SHOW: To innovate is to be relevant, says Bell exec

By Lesley Hunter

TORONTO – Canadian companies are not as innovative as they could be because they don’t know how best to commercialize their inventions, and, they’re too afraid to fail, says Victor J. Garcia, the new chief technology officer at Bell Business Markets. Speaking at the Canadian Wireless Trade Show in Toronto about the need for meaningful innovation in large corporations like telecom, Garcia cautioned that companies who don’t actively promote and foster innovation run the risk of becoming irrelevant and commoditized. “One of the biggest problems that we have is that we become encased in reinforced silos”, he told delegates. “Sometimes...