More enterprise arrogance

Earlier in month, Vineet Nayar of HCL raised a firestorm by saying “most American college grads are "unemployable" It was viewed as an uppity comment by an Indian outsourcer or one to justify bringing in lower-cost Indians on H1-B visas. He explained it as “they're far less inclined than students from developing countries like India, China, Brazil, South Africa, and Ireland to spend their time learning the "boring" details of tech process, methodology, and tools--ITIL, Six Sigma, and the like.”

Contrast those comments to recent ones by Paul Graham of Y-Combinator in Inc magazine that I recently posted on New Florence. He also has a methodology and value system which has allowed the fund to invest in 145 start-ups – with – surprise – young Americans. Hungry ones. Who would likely quit HCL or Accenture in a week if they even bothered to apply there.

I  don’t see Vineet’s comment as racist – but as more arrogance in the enterprise world (as I recently wrote contrasting enterprise software to the iPhone apps ecosystem) where we just continue to pride old methods and ways of working.

Julia King of Computerworld recently quoted me “"Consumerization of technology should be a broad manifesto for change in corporate IT and enterprise vendors. Let's face it -- we are slower, uglier, exorbitantly expensive, obsessed with security and compliance."

I should have added more arrogant.