5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About Strategic Foresight with Bart Édes — DT101 E95

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode of the Design Thinking 101 podcast is 5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About: Strategic Foresight. Our guest today is Bart Édes. Bart is a professor at McGill University in International Development.</span></p> <p><strong>Listen to learn about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Future thinking and strategic foresight</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The benefits of using of foresight</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to start using foresight in your organization</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Teaming up with a futurist</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Three skills decision makers need to prepare for the future</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Futures Wheel</span> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Guest</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bart Édes is a policy analyst, commentator, and author of Learning From Tomorrow: Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption. He focuses on Asian economic cooperation and integration, sustainable development, international trade, trends reshaping the world, and futures thinking. Édes contributes to the work of the OECD Development Assistance Committee's Friends of Foresight Community and Task Force on Foresight for Sustainable Development Finance. Based in Montréal, Édes is a Professor of Practice at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:09] Bart gives a quick introduction to himself.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:59] The short definition of strategic foresight.</span>