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Technology for Non-Technical Leaders

Enough understanding to ask good questions and not be sold to. For directors and executives who sign off technology decisions without a technical background.

What participants can do afterwards

  • Ask the four questions that expose a weak technology proposal
  • Read a technical recommendation for the assumptions it is hiding
  • Judge build-versus-buy without needing to be an engineer
  • Set the reporting that tells you whether an investment is working

Modules

3 modules, 4 facilitated hours.

  1. 1.Four questions

    1.5 hrs

    The questions that expose a weak proposal regardless of the technology.

    • Ask the questions that expose a weak proposal

  2. 2.Reading a recommendation

    1.5 hrs

    Finding the assumptions underneath a technical case.

    • Surface the assumptions in a technical recommendation

  3. 3.What to ask for in reporting

    1 hrs

    Specifying the small number of numbers worth seeing.

    • Specify reporting that shows whether it is working

How it is delivered

A facilitator runs the course live, in person or live online. Attendance is taken per session, participants submit work against the modules above, and a facilitator grades it. Those records stay with the organisation and can be exported.

Further reading

Technology judgement for non-technical directors is the public briefing that sits next to this course.