Colombo Innovation Tower gets set to drive innovation for SL

Powered by AOD 3.0 Creative Professionals with Strategic Design, Tech & Creative Business thinking

 

Housed at the Colombo Innovation Tower, AOD 3.0 is set to power the ecosystem with new age professionals educated in a unique environment that converges design with technology and creative business. It is set up to drive a different side of much-needed innovation using strategic design and design thinking. CIT is where global brands, multinational companies and local businesses will work in a new symbiosis as the ‘innovation island’, where uniquely fresh viewpoints on creativity, tech and business are paving the way to new understandings on how we can influence the future of humanity by augmenting our quality and experience of life. 

To create what is needed to drive innovation, AOD recently announced a radically futuristic series of degrees where students will have the opportunity to study design, future tech and creative business in convergence with one another. This interdisciplinary higher education offer, is the first of its kind in Sri Lanka and responds to the emerging contours of a complex new world with constantly shifting markets with a new generation of designers, technologists and business experts and a realisation that creativity is not only for design heads but for tech and business heads too.

Today creative thinking is helping resolve hardcore business problems, as hardcore business challenges are solved when we look at the problem through another’s eyes with empathy. This kind of thinking and creative approach needs to be trained and be constantly immersed in frameworks and methodologies that ignite that spark. It has to be multi-disciplinary to drive multi-disciplinary innovation. Being a design centric entity, AOD’s approach to education is always through responding to where the markets are shifting and its creative professionals are those capable of interdisciplinary thinking which opens up the gates to creative inflow as we live in a world today where creativity is considered an advantage and not a distraction in a business environment. 

It is inevitable that technology will dominate our lives and the way we do business, and therefore technologically geared talent pool will be a necessity for any organisation across any industry. At the same time, the way people approach business is changing; the bedrock of successful businesses tomorrow will be innovation – the ability to adapt to things and respond to continually changing situations. Through AOD 3.0 creative professional, Colombo Innovation Tower will be well poised for innovation that is transformative yet relevant as it will augment the irreplaceable creative thinking of humans with the technological advancements and changing business requirements. 

While business growth is definitely driven by technology, this potential can only be fully leveraged with the talents of a motivated and agile workforce who are equipped with futureproof skills to take advantage on new opportunities through creative thinking and deep understanding of business markets.

For a future that is dynamic; design thinking, tech adeptness and innovative business thinking will be the key drivers; and education focusing on this trifactor is what AOD 3.0 is offering. The uniqueness of AOD creative professional is recognising that the core of a future professional is a creative, divergent thinker, capable of critical problem solving. It won’t be about making things look good but creatively approaching problems and finding solutions that actually work. 

With AOD’s move to the Colombo Innovation Tower, CIT really becomes the region’s hotspot for design led innovation. The AOD 3.0 creative professionals will be one of the most valued assets of the CIT community, as the lifeblood that connects fresh ideas in design and possibilities in technology with new business opportunities in the future markets. It will be a win-win environment as the future workforce will be able to tap into knowledge and opportunities presented by cross disciplinary mix of brands and innovators and they in turn who are partners and members of CIT will have constant access to this incredible talent pool. Anything that has to do with linking creativity and business within the region, anything that has to do with innovation – CIT will be the place to discover it.

To find out more or become part of the Colombo Innovation Tower ecosystem, reach [email protected] or 076 100 7610.