**5. Strategizing process of a fashion technology center for sports industries necessity**

Stimulating industrial prosperity requires remodeling and implementing new cooperative chains to grow a new national market and satisfy consumer preferences.

The specialized center may be created to solve technological problems for creating excellence in athlete outfitting by light industry and fashion industry enterprises. The domestic light industry and fashion industry can create such a fashion technology center (FTC).

The FTC mission is to commercialize and promote light industry and fashion industry developments for the sports field as well as to create a unified environment for technology transfer and cooperation facilitation.

The strategic key functions of such a FTC could be:


According to the aforementioned methodology, hereinafter strategic priorities are presented linked with relevant strategic goals system (**Table 1**).

Given the strategic trend of digitalization and its impact on management decision support tools, an industry-specific digital platform is required. Digital platform as a decision support system can establish continuous knowledge transfer.

*Fashion-Strategizing Leadership in Sports DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.113202*


### **Table 1.**

*The FTC strategic priorities system.*

A new type of employees should be formed; basic skills and competencies should be revised. An industry professional in the fashion industry, engaged in fashion and light industry strategizing, fashion strategist, should understand the mechanisms of technology and innovation transfer in sports.
