Accenture, Ai training platform for 9 million Italians

Will training go hand in hand with artificial intelligence? That's the bet Accenture has made, starting in Italy for the launch of LearnVantage in Europe. We are talking about a learning platform enhanced by the use of artificial intelligence on which the multinational has made a global investment of one billion dollars for the next three years. This is accompanied by the acquisition of Udacity, a content provider founded in Silicon Valley and also specialising in the training of technological skills.

In our country, the platform will be able to bridge the skills gap in strategic areas such as Gen AI, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and data science, supporting the upskilling and reskilling of an estimated 9 million Italian workers. LearnVantage is designed to become a kind of travelling companion for people in a labour market where 40 per cent of activities will be impacted by technologies such as generative artificial intelligence. Accenture's Managing Director for Italy, Teodoro Lio, explains that the platform, contrary to what one might think, offers "depth of digital skills training, immediately usable on the job" and allows "a unique learning experience that combines a network of international coaches with engaging digital content, adapted to the national market and customised on the basis of rapid assessments enabled by artificial intelligence. We have already started working with companies to direct investments on training on a par with those on technology, because we firmly believe that they are two complementary dimensions, to be pursued together in a synergic way to strengthen our country's competitiveness on the international scene".

LearnVantage was designed for both the public and private sectors and has the characteristic of offering learning experiences and training content on digital skills and has already been tried and tested in house by the multinational company that invests more than a billion dollars a year in training its 750,000 employees to whom it provides 40 million hours.

The platform represents a response to the need for training that is very much felt in organisations, so much so that saccording to an Accenture study, leaders identify the ability to improve the skills of their workforce as the main challenge, with 51% of organisations beginning to feel the digital skills shortage. While the vast majority (94%) of workers say they want to learn new skills to work with generative artificial intelligence, the reality still sees very few companies (only 5%) able to offer specialised and large-scale training.