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Ask Slashdot: How To Teach IT To Senior Management?

Posted by timothy on from the first-there-were-the-dinosaurs dept.

New submitter gagol writes "I recently took a position at a small industrial equipment manufacturer. We are looking to buy a new ERM software package and my boss, who is looking forward to buy the thing, knows nothing about computers or software. I will be providing basic IT training to the senior management and I am looking for your input on the scope and content of said training. I am thinking: basic components and architecture -> networking -> software -> proprietary vs open source. What do you think?"

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  1. Grandma has no idea what's under the hood of a car by walmass · · Score: 4, Informative

    but she drives it quite well and she DOES not need to know about how engines and transmissions work. Yes, it would be nice, but it is NOT necessary
    You are going to lose your audience if you give them the "basic components and architecture -> networking -> software -> proprietary vs open source".

    Without knowing your product, I am betting most people will use it using a web browser.

    Here is an outline:

    What the ERM will do for the company (I presume they already know this, so no more than a few minutes on this.
    To run the ERM, we will need:
    new server? (why?)
    new computers? (why?)
    new network? (why?)
    This is how you will use it:
    A
    B
    C