Shaping the future: Foresight skills for business and personal growth

Whether they are organizations or individuals, forerunners don’t merely react to the future—they proactively shape it. Foresight skills are pivotal in this task. For organizations, foresight is a powerful tool for making better business decisions, leveraging multidisciplinary talent, and turning ideas into concrete ventures. For individuals, it is an empowering mindset that fosters slow, deliberate thinking and unlocks their full potential.

In this episode of Do Better Talks, we meet Emily Xiangxuan Xu, a senior foresight manager at Volvo Group Connected Solutions Innovation Lab. As an economist and forward-thinking strategist, her work focuses identify the facts, trends, scenarios, and novel business models that will shape the future. The interview was conducted by Ivanka Visnjic, professor in the Full Time MBA program at Esade and Director of the Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences.