Ian Morrison

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Ian is an internationally known author, consultant, and speaker specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on healthcare and the changing business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their long term future. Ian has written, lectured, and consulted on a wide variety of forecasting, strategy, and healthcare 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 board of Fortune 100 companies to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Ian has worked with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and financial services. Recent client sponsors include Pfizer, Pitney-Bowes, Mellon Bank 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, November., 1999). His previous book The Second Curve – Managing the Velocity of Change (Ballantine, May 1999) was a New York Times Business Bestseller and Business Week Bestseller. Ian is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and its former President (from 1990 to 1996), responsibility for leading IFTF's growth and success over that period. He holds and 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.