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Ian Morrison

Ian Morrison

Keynote Speaker: Healthcare Futurist and Author

Ian Morrison Biography

Ian Morrison is an internationally known author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their longer-term future.

Ian has written, lectured, and consulted on a wide variety of forecasting, strategy, and health care topics for government, industry, and a variety of nonprofit organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has spoken to a range of audiences from the boards of Fortune 100 companies to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Ian has worked with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in health care, manufacturing, information technology, and financial services. Recent client sponsors include GE, Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic. He is a frequent commentator on the future for television, radio, and the print media.

Ian is the author of Leading Change in Health Care: Building a Viable System for Today and Tomorrow and Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership. His previous book: The Second Curve – Managing The Velocity of Change was a New York Times business bestseller and Businessweek bestseller. Ian has co-authored several books and chapters, including Future Tense: The Business Realities of the Next Ten Years and Looking Ahead at American Health Care. He also has co-authored numerous journal articles for publications such as Chief Executive, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Across the Board, The British Medical Journal and New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs.

Ian is a founding partner in Strategic Health Perspectives (SHP), (a forecasting service for clients in the health care industry), along with joint venture partners Harris Interactive and the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management. Ian is President Emeritus of the Institute for the Future (IFTF). From 1996-1999, Ian was retained by Accenture as Chairman of the Health Futures Forum, in that capacity he chaired a number of Health Futures Forums in Asia, Australasia, and North America.

Before coming to IFTF in 1985, Ian spent seven years in British Columbia, Canada, in a variety of research, teaching, and consulting positions. He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in urban studies from the University of British Columbia; an M.A. in geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a graduate degree in urban planning from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of SFN Group (an NYSE company); a past director of the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET), the research and education arm of the American Hospital Association; a past director of the Center for Health Design; and a director and past-chair of the California Health Care Foundation. He recently joined the board of the New Martin Luther King Hospital in Los Angeles. Ian also served as a member of the Stakeholders Advisory Committee of the Program for Health Systems Improvement at Harvard University.

Ian is a proud member of GlobalScot, a network of Scottish expatriates convened by the new Scottish Executive to help promote Scotland’s economic development interests internationally. True to his Scottish roots, Ian is an avid, though average, golfer.

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Ian Morrison Speaking Topics

Managing the Velocity of Change

Leading Change in Healthcare: Building a Viable System for Today & Tomorrow

Massively Coordinated Care: IT & Big Data

The Future of the Healthcare Marketplace

Healthcare is in a state of fluctuation. Healthcare costs are rising and the burden is increasingly being shifted to consumers. We see massive horizontal consolidation of pharmaceutical companies, health plans, hospital systems, and to a lesser extent physician groups. Challenges abound. The industry is looking for a new direction and a new vision, but we fall prey to fads, as organizations are stretched thin by the roller coaster of change in management philosophy, reimbursement, and medical technology. Morrison focuses on the political, economic, and strategic context of change in healthcare and examines how the various factors prepare for the future. He identifies leadership challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and provides strategic insights on how organizations and individuals can flourish in the new millennium in healthcare.

The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change

Most businesses in most industries go along quite nicely on their first curve (their core business) where they make all their profit and revenue. Then along comes a second curve--a new business or completely new way of doing business, driven by new technologies, new consumers (who are smarter, more affluent, more skeptical and more demanding than the previous generation), and new markets. The challenge is to gauge how fast the second curve will take over and develop strategy accordingly, to understand and manage the velocity of change.

Ian Morrison Videos

Conference Luncheon Speaker Ian Morrison at the 2019 NIC Spring ...
Ian Morrison - The Future of the HC Marketplace - YouTube
Ian Morrison - Healthcare Transformation - The Second Curve

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Ian Morrison is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Business, Personal Growth, Health, Futurism, Healthcare, Authors, Political, Peak Performance, Business Leadership, Consulting, Inspirational, Fitness, Business Growth, News & Media, Finance and Technology.

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Ian Morrison is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Business, Personal Growth and Health. Please contact us for live or virtual event fee details. Ian Morrison generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Jeffrey Bauer, Peter Diamandis and Jim Carroll. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ian Morrison for an upcoming event.

Ian Morrison Speaking Topics

  • Managing the Velocity of Change

  • Leading Change in Healthcare: Building a Viable System for Today & Tomorrow

  • Massively Coordinated Care: IT & Big Data

  • The Future of the Healthcare Marketplace

    Healthcare is in a state of fluctuation. Healthcare costs are rising and the burden is increasingly being shifted to consumers. We see massive horizontal consolidation of pharmaceutical companies, health plans, hospital systems, and to a lesser extent physician groups. Challenges abound. The industry is looking for a new direction and a new vision, but we fall prey to fads, as organizations are stretched thin by the roller coaster of change in management philosophy, reimbursement, and medical technology. Morrison focuses on the political, economic, and strategic context of change in healthcare and examines how the various factors prepare for the future. He identifies leadership challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and provides strategic insights on how organizations and individuals can flourish in the new millennium in healthcare.

  • The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change

    Most businesses in most industries go along quite nicely on their first curve (their core business) where they make all their profit and revenue. Then along comes a second curve--a new business or completely new way of doing business, driven by new technologies, new consumers (who are smarter, more affluent, more skeptical and more demanding than the previous generation), and new markets. The challenge is to gauge how fast the second curve will take over and develop strategy accordingly, to understand and manage the velocity of change.

Ian Morrison Videos

Conference Luncheon Speaker Ian Morrison at the 2019 NIC Spring ...
Ian Morrison - The Future of the HC Marketplace - YouTube
Ian Morrison - Healthcare Transformation - The Second Curve
Future of Medicaid - CSPAN
Ian Morrison Healthcare Futurist

Ian Morrison News

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