 Ian Morrison
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 XL Capital, Pfizer and Kaiser Permanente.
He is a frequent commentator on the future for television, radio, and the print media. Ian is the author of Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2002). His previous book: The Second Curve - Managing The Velocity of Change (Ballantine, 1996) 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 (William Morrow, 1994) and Looking Ahead at American Health Care (McGraw-Hill, 1988). He also has co-authored numerous journal articles for publications such as Chief Executive, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Across the Board, The British Medical Journal, 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) and Chair of IFTF’s Health Advisory Panel. 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 member of the Board of Directors of Spherion Corporation (an NYSE company); an immediate past director of the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET), the research and education arm of the American Hospital Association; a director of the Center for Health Design; and a director of the California Health Care.
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 Kim Slocum
Kim D. Slocum is President of KDS Consulting, LLC, an organization devoted to helping health care organizations understand the broader environment in which they operate and assisting them in finding strategic, sustaining solutions to the business challenges they face.
Before founding KDS Consulting, Kim worked for more than thirty-three years in a variety of health care, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology firms. Most recently, he was Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals where he helped lead the company's multi-year effort to develop innovative tools to better understand and shape its external environment. Over his career, Kim has worked in a series of positions in sales, sales training, marketing, new product development, managed care marketing, disease management, externalization, health care consulting, and strategic planning.
Kim is deeply involved in the important field of healthcare information technology. He is a Fellow Member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a former member of the Society's Board of Directors, and a recipient of the Society's 2005 Board Service Award. He is a former member of the Society's Advocacy and Public Policy Steering Committee, and presently serves as a member of the its Auto-Identification and Bar-Coding Task Force. He is also member of the faculty for the Society's annual conference helping to teach a course called "HIT 101" designed to introduce individuals new to HIT the basics of health policy and its intersection with information technology.
Among his other activities, Kim is currently affiliated with Strategic Health Perspective--a forecasting service for clients in the health care industry--which is a joint venture of Harris Interactive, the health care futurist Ian Morrison, and the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management. In addition, he is also a Senior Scholar at Thomas Jefferson University's Department of Health Policy in his adopted home town of Philadelphia. He is an Emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Health Institute--co-chairing the information technology workgroup of the Institute's "Shared Vision" project--an activity focused on developing a comprehensive, non-partisan plan for a sustainable US health care system.
Kim's interest in strategic issues associated with health care delivery and financing date back more than a decade when he led the former Zeneca Pharmaceuticals' first strategic planning effort devoted to managed care audiences. He also help to found Stuart Disease Management Services, an innovative early effort to help understand and integrate the continuum of medical care for patients with chronic disease. He served for nearly two years as a member of that organization's management team.
He earned his bachelor's degree at the State University of New York at Geneseo and did his graduate studies in Business at Xavier University.
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