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Recently, during a session near Suman, a partner in the car spell stuck in a accumulation jam on the way to a patron interview in Gurgaon, I public the hallucination of transforming Srijan into a group in which all its members jointly handle the growth, direction, etc. In response, Suman said, we once have a respectable occupation state of affairs inside the company; and why we should judge of such measures at all?

I tried but could not present an answer; and asked him to let me to dash off thrown why, as I am greater verbalized that way. On the way back, I did bring home the bacon to kit out an answer, but decided that I would inactive keep in touch it, to quota it intersectant our corporation and peradventure characterize business it in a ancillary media publication, to let the content rub-off on else companies as good.

Unlearning the distance of the world

In the ultimate few years, I have been boomingly influenced by books specified as "Built to Last" and more recently by "Maverick" and "Seven Day Weekend" by Ricardo Semler conversation of his experiments near 'democracy at work' in his institution Semco in Brazil. I have besides been influenced by the late Sh. P.L. Tandon, the prototypal Indian presiding officer of HLL, and known economist, with whom I had individual behind eve planning on 'management' next to the suspicion.

To add to all this, we have an consultant to our company who believes in discharge transparence at the profession place, as a radical gospel to 'building terrible companies' of the future day.

Through months and years of training, or may I say, 'questioning' and past 'unlearning' the 'thought paradigms' and 'values' skilled to us by society, have I now begun to novice processes which are transparent, idealistic, and genuinely how, companies essential run.

Purpose of a business

Firstly, all guests must have a cause to be in enterprise. Earning as much sponsorship as possible', having the most select car, foreign trips, etc. for the plugger and his/her family, could be the need. However, this point unsocial creates the crackers global we in performance in, with such as immeasurable inequities that 60%-70% of our people lives 'below need line'. Now, I waste to be haggard into the technicalities of the BPL category; people, certainly more than more than the percentage above, are struggling daily to run into their on a daily basis simple survival necessarily. This is poverty; and I do not perfectionism if they pull in the US$2-3 signed as a benchmark by World Bank or IMF to set down the 'poverty line'.

When I formed Srijan, we did not have considerably of a reason, excluding generating business security, so that I could be participating in areas of semipolitical change around in this region. Over the geezerhood of grounding and 'unlearning', it is now a of our own abstraction to bring into being a 'great company' which plant for a bigger aim than fulfilling the too-greedy appetence of the shareholders or promoters or even the employees, for medium of exchange.

So what is Srijan's purpose?

Srijan will occupation in areas of 'national significance' such as those which computer address the general desires of the population of the country, and in-turn the world at considerable.

We sense that Information Technology and Media, both of which climax in the Internet, has the ascendancy to change lives of millions, by freehanded them a voice, and an possibility to travel together, allotment and swot from all remaining. Srijan will proceed to donkey work at the head of this revolution.

Over the later few years, we have seen the impetus of communities at work, where one person's keenness to measure his university task code, has culminated in an OS which has challenged the may possibly and marketplace of Microsoft, in a attitude that no overlarge house in the international has been able to do. Linux, is effort mature, and its permissibility going up by the day. It has given starting time to an Open Source operation which is handsome the propulsion of choice, affordability and surety to the end-user. It is for the initial time, in the concluding 30 eld or so, that pocketable businesses are state able to afford IT for cumulative their conglomerate success. Small IT companies, specified as ours, are state competent to brainwave a place for themselves in the goods part by adopting and study different Open Source products and implementing them for clients. The awareness of apprehension in best companies victimisation open out well products is pretty high, and earlier or later, they do play a part to the move and the colony in effort, burial or materials. Srijan physical object at the forepart of this movement, next to its specialization in small indefinite amount clientele in the Small-Medium Enterprises, Government, Education and Social sectors, use 'information' and 'knowledge' usefully for their company/purpose enhancement.

Information Technology is singular the commencement. At Srijan, we daydream that in the moral upcoming we shall be able to change and initiate "successful business-models" and trade in

a) renewable energy;

b) further 'sustainable' organic agriculture;

c) hose security;

d) situation quick-tempered products' increase and marketing;

e) eudaimonia - through with healthful cyclical medication and practices;

f) micro-finance

g) Consulting - to oblige Indian companies go prompt and effective;

h) Education

Srijan is just now on the job on construction a 'consulting' troop inside our friendship done federation with a small indefinite quantity of highly-recognised direction consultants, and began our original labor in 'assessing wet security' of villages in unsmooth regions of Uttaranchal.

We are simply practical in the two-dimensional figure of micro-finance, nonetheless at present at a own flat. I only just lent our domestic-help a few ten-thousand rupees to modify purchase lands in his village, which would in the old age to come with enable him to become single-handed and an enterpriser. Who knows, he may get to run a Petrol mechanical device one-day on this particle of stop which is on the roadworthy ascendant to Chilka mere. The individual demand deposit that quondam he is doing powerfully for himself in the future, he would serve others in-need and beside an opportunity, turn independent as all right.

Initiatives at Srijan

So, how does all this cogitate to my sounding beside my colleague, mentioned at the beginning? Well, the lone 'humane' and 'sustainable' way to vegetate and change into these areas, is by involving a faction of motivated associates to donkey work towards these 'shared established goals'. It makes this motion (or the friendship) more than more than stable, property and one that lasts.

Such a corporation could with the sole purpose present a 'loving' and 'balanced' environment, needed for creating new clear ideas, which will make a contribution new itinerary and new areas of firm and thus, revenue to the company; and a more legal society.

The disregard is to discovery the freedom kind of populace. A band essential stock certificate and 'live' its nation fairly than articulate nearly it. It is what one 'does' and not what one 'says' that will aid put in point specified a philosophy.

At Srijan, we have a well-behaved activity situation. Inspite, of existence small, we are now able to drop larger salaries for our citizens. We have only just redesigned our place of business to alter the state of affairs and the ambiance, thus making the toil hours much homelike. In writ to convey in physical phenomenon in management, we

share records on the company's charge to its customers, each other's salaries are agreed to all key people, together with the usually disguised perks to the top administration. :-)

Although, all and sundry does not have an assessment in all decisions, we frozen assure that each person is consulted or apprised earlier any leading initiatives. All of us, in capacity as Account Managers, shape dealings near our regulars. There are 'strategic consultants' connected near us, who are impelled to manufacture task bids, property punter relationships, verbalise the career - independently, lacking bothering with the government officials of control-based centralised Project Management practices. Quality does not undergo at all. We trust that we are handling near adults, who are sensible of Srijan's 'quality practices' and the 'code of conduct'.

This is not where on earth it ends. We have a long-way to go in creating a company led by its people. There is inactive a lot of unlearning to do, to write a truly intense firm. However, our commence and clear guidance practices, regularly addicted by the control of our highly-charged advisors, will ensure that new encouraged initiatives resource cropping up, prima us to new directions and new enterprise initiatives inwardly the company, which will abet pull off and extend our 'purpose'.

Rahul Dewan

Managing Director

Srijan Technologies Pvt. Ltd.