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IT for Non IT Managers

Managers outside the technology function approve technology spend, depend on technology decisions and are frequently unable to interrogate either. This course fixes that without teaching anybody to code. Delegates cover how the pieces fit together, from networks and servers through cloud to applications and data, in terms that make a technical conversation followable. The commercial layer is the point of the course: what cloud actually costs and how that cost behaves, why projects overrun, what technical debt is and why it eventually stops a business, and how to read a vendor proposal. Security and continuity are covered as management responsibilities rather than technical topics.

3 day course

Course objectives

  • Explain how networks, servers, cloud, applications and data fit together
  • Follow and question a technical conversation with confidence
  • Understand what cloud costs and how that cost behaves over time
  • Explain technical debt and why it eventually constrains the business
  • Read a vendor proposal and identify what is missing
  • Recognise why technology projects overrun
  • Treat security and continuity as management responsibilities

Who should attend

  • Managers and executives outside the technology function
  • Finance staff approving technology spend
  • Operations and human resources managers
  • Project sponsors in non technical roles
  • Board members without a technology background

Course outline

  1. 01How the pieces fit together
  2. 02Networks, servers and the data centre
  3. 03Cloud, and what it actually costs
  4. 04Applications, integration and data
  5. 05Why technology projects overrun
  6. 06Technical debt and its consequences
  7. 07Reading a vendor proposal
  8. 08Security and continuity as management duties

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for IT for Non IT Managers
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
23 to 25 November 2026Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaClassroomUSD 995 per delegate
28 to 30 December 2026Harare, ZimbabweClassroomUSD 995 per delegate
17 to 19 February 2027Windhoek, NamibiaClassroomR14,950 per delegate
1 to 3 March 2027OnlineOnlineR6,500 per delegate
10 to 12 March 2027Pretoria, South AfricaClassroomR14,950 per delegate

IT for Non IT Managers

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