Keynote Speaker: Joe Flower

Joe Flower

Joe Flower
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Joe Flower Travels From: CA

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Biography

Founder and chief executive of Imagine What If, Inc., Joe Flower has been writing, speaking, and consulting about creating change for over 25 years.

He is author or co-author of several books including:
• China’s Futures Global Business Network 2000 (co-author)
• The 21st Century Healthcare Leader Jossey-Bass 1999 (co-author)
• Japan’s Futures, Global Business Network 1998 (Executive Editor)
• Leading Change: A Key Challenge for Board-Management Teams, The Governance Institute, 1998
• The Encyclopedia of the Future MacMillan, 1996 (co-author)
• Best Practices in Collaboration to Improve Health: Creating Community Jazz, (principal co-author), The Healthcare Forum and the California Wellness Foundation, 1996
• Prince of the Magic Kingdom: Michael Eisner and the Re-Making of Disney John Wiley 1991
• Age Wave Random House 1989 (co-author)

He is author, as well, of three major healthcare compendia and several hundred articles, and a contributing editor at Physician Executive, and Hospitals and Health Networks Online.

Flower is principal author of the landmark forecast, “Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology (vol. 35, no. 4, 2000). His recent clients include Airbus, ArianeSpace, the World Health Organization, the United States Department of Defense, the UK National Health Service, and the Global Business Network. He is a founding member of the International Health Futures Network and has ongoing retainer relationships with the Global Health Team of Booz Allen Hamilton and with Gerson Lehrman.

Titles

The End Of Healthcare As We Know It
Healthcare is facing a period of rapid, discontinuous change. At least three different types of change vectors promise a turbulent future: Major outside forces, new technologies, and the rising power of the consumer. We can be overwhelmed by the forces of change, or we can use the turbulence to build the Next Healthcare - a healthcare that really works.

The Next Healthcare
In 20 years healthcare may look very little like it does today. We can already see some of the building blocks that future - from digitization and the Internet, to powerful new pharmaceuticals and diagnostic techniques, to the increasing failure of our current financing structures - and we can begin to imagine what kind of future they will likely shape.

Borrow My Eyes: _Consumer Power In the Future of Healthcare
The Information Age brings us far more than interesting, useful new ways to communicate with our customers and serve them. Combined with new consumer-directed health plans, it will usher in an age of consumer power unlike anything healthcare has experienced before. It will be highly disruptive - but it may be the best thing that has ever happened to healthcare.

Imagine What If . . .
In a talk designed to provoke thought and discussion, Flower presents nine distinct challenges facing healthcare - and what healthcare organizations must do to prepare for them. Each of these scenarios has the capacity to profoundly change healthcare in the U.S. - most of them in a relatively short time frame, with significant movement within the next 24 months. None of these is far-fetched. All are based on real drugs in the pipeline, real policy shifts, real political trends.

The Change Tools Teach-In
Here are the tools your organization needs to become a nimble, adaptive organism, including scenarios planning, and the elements of the "long conversation," such as knowledge management, sense-making, and competency transfer, plus the personal skills you and your colleagues need to thrive on change without stress - in a keynote, a half-day seminar, or a longer workshop.

iOR: The Future of the Operating Room
Standardization, digitization, robotics, outsourcing, and networked automation are producing an operating room that will be unrecognizable - but faster, more accurate, less expensive, using fewer people, and replicatable across environments that we would never today think of as operating rooms.

Five Vectors in the Future _of the Healthcare Value Chain
Five major, inter-related trends will shape the healthcare value chain in 2006 and beyond: continued and increasing cost pressures, driving a need for efficiency in innovation, and partially driving both a great increase in overseas outsourcing, and the emergence of networked automation as a health-industry wide theme.

The Big Future Talk: The Six Transformations of 21st Century Healthcare
E-HEALTH: Eight Power Factors, Three Scenarios
Experience/Relatonship/Tech: Customer & Employee Satisfaction
The Next Healthcare
The New Genomic Knowledge