Mar 23 2008
Business doesn’t have to be evil!
India’s Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) has announced on March 21, Friday to adopt OOXML as the standard data format for storing office document in India.
BIS finally made 13-1-5 (13-No, 1 Absent, 5-Yes) decision on adopting OOXML.
Different responses and views are obtained by various business and IT leaders.Microsoft and Indian software giants like Infosys, TCS and Wipro are the one that say ‘yes’ to OOXML.
Microsoft stated, “While we are disappointed with the decision of the BIS Ltd 15 committee, we are very encouraged by the support of the IT industry players like NASSCOM, TCS, Wipro and Infosys, who voted in favour of Open XML becoming an ISO standard.”
Compromising business is probably the most dangerous entity to choose when it comes to setting up the next best direction and the ‘right’ future for its people
Sitting in the forum, they would think they are making decision for their ‘survival’, while instead; they are being entrusted to make decision for the future of their people — and for world society as a whole
But when it comes to make key decision that affect people and world society as a whole, Wipro and Infosys may become a very sorry example of a business chicken out though the companies are big in terms of operation and turnover.
But opposite to these are unusual companies which take care of being what is right and good for people and society. These companies are real innovators. Some of them are Akio Morita’s Sony, Steve Job’s Apple, Anita Roddick’s Body Shop, Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, Shultz Starbuck and Google.
These companies and business groups can be trusted which can contribute to society. They have the prospect to change the world for better.
Their decisive act become ‘brave heart act’ that are proudly ‘whispered’ from time to time, across generations. It inspires successive generations (of future ‘business leaders’, ‘business builders’ and ‘business doers’) to come, listen, and get inspired by the purpose and ‘brave’ act of the past, and eventually decide: “I will also do (and build) business to contribute to the betterment of the people, and the society as a whole.”
