Accountancy Age is trailing a report by PWC saying that company board rooms do not have sufficient IT knowledge. They may be right, but in many ways this is not the problem. The problem is that board members are frightened to ask IT questions for fear of the answers or a belief that it is too technical. It's not, the role of a board member (particularly non-execs), is to ask questions and make sure they understand the answers.

The physicist Richard Feynman once said "If it can't be reduced it to freshman level. That means we don't really understand it.” Something that is too true of IT.