How I explain technology (in simple terms).
I start from the problem, use one example, and I do not keep an explanation that someone outside the field cannot repeat.
People do not struggle with ERP, AI or digital transformation because they are incapable. They struggle because we explain the tool before the reason.
The problem comes first
If someone understands why a shared order matters, the screen that creates it is easy. If they do not, every field looks arbitrary. I start with a situation they have already lived: two numbers for the same stock, a promise the warehouse could not keep, a report that took three people to assemble.
The technology is the second sentence, not the first.
One idea at a time
I would rather a person leave with a single distinction they can use than with a tour of a platform. System of record versus system of recommendation. Policy versus the workaround. Adoption versus attendance. Jargon is allowed after it has been unpacked, and not before. A term that only signals membership is a failed explanation.
Test it outside the room
I try the explanation on someone who does not implement systems for a living. If they can say it back without my slides, it is ready for a video or an article. If they cannot, the gap is mine.
That is also how I decide what to publish. If I cannot make it useful to a manager who will never open a configuration screen, I do not understand it well enough yet.