Turkish fashion retailer LC Waikiki — a company that aims to become one of Europe's three largest brands in fashion retail — is investing in its workforce's digital skills. Through its Corporate Academy, the company has launched a Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence School designed to help employees understand AI technologies and put them to work in their day-to-day processes.
A curriculum built on European standards
The program is run jointly with the Technology Transfer Office of Yildiz Technical University. The training content was developed by LC Waikiki's Corporate Academy with reference to the European Digital Competence Framework, created by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
The curriculum consists of 8 modules and 27 sessions, delivered online two days a week. Participants cover artificial intelligence, data analytics, cybersecurity, digital manufacturing and entrepreneurship, digital literacy, communication in the digital world, and programming logic.
Classes are taught by internal instructors who bring real company cases from their own fields into the classroom, linking the concepts to everyday business processes. The program is not limited to technology teams — employees from different departments can take part, with the goal of spreading digital competence across the entire company.
Certificates and concrete solution proposals
At the end of the program, which is being delivered to 450 employees, participants are asked to use what they have learned to develop applicable solution proposals for their own areas of work. The company aims both to generate projects that add value to individual units and to measure the return on its training investment. Those who pass the evaluation will receive a certificate approved by Yildiz Technical University's Technology Transfer Office.
LC Waikiki also plans to expand the program in the future, extending its digital competence training to university students and to employees' children.
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