Systems Thinking Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/systems-thinking/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:45:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Healthcare: Where’s the Bin Marked “Productivity”? Where’s the Lever Marked “More”? https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-wheres-the-bin-marked-productivity-wheres-the-lever-marked-more/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:48:41 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3104 Healthcare costs too much, and we don’t get enough of the healthcare that we need. This is our core problem in one word: “productivity.” The obvious difficulties of healthcare in the U.S., where we can’t seem to take care of everyone, millions are saddled with coverage that is too expensive for them to really use, Medicaid […]

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]]> How to Be a Better Futurist, and Why https://imaginewhatif.com/how-to-be-a-better-futurist-and-why/ Wed, 25 May 2016 21:44:44 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2930 You can hone your crystal ball–gazing skills to better forecast healthcare trends. The best forecasters read widely about all kinds of developments, even about trends that have nothing to do with their fields of expertise. You need to become a better futurist. You need to up your game at least to “prosumer” level. Why? Because […]

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]]> “Obamacare is Failing,” According to Industry Expert C. Little https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-is-failing-according-to-industry-expert-c-little/ https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-is-failing-according-to-industry-expert-c-little/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:12:39 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2521 “See? Obamacare is failing!” according to industry expert C. Little, citing Wolf Report 712A just filed by Boy W. Cried. But before we perform the Last Rites over Obamacare, perhaps we should think for a moment about the hit ratio of the first 711 Wolf Reports from the young Mr. Cried and ask a few questions.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-is-failing-according-to-industry-expert-c-little/feed/ 2 “Winning” by Defeating the Triple Aim https://imaginewhatif.com/winning-by-defeating-the-triple-aim/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:26:02 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2515 Maintaining market dominance is actually a fragile strategy based on a single scenario and a monochromatic set of assumptions about the future. If your entire business structure depends on keeping your prices a high secret, and not exposed to real competition on price and quality, you are on the crumbling edge of a cliff as the seas advance.

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]]> What Company Will You Keep? Strategy In the New Era https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/ https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:27:01 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2416 In an era of complex change in healthcare, how do you plan? Obviously, you have to. Obviously, you can’t. Let’s step through it: the shape of the complexity we are dealing with, how the process must change to deal with it, and what kind of mind we need for this new thinking.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/feed/ 1 How We Build Healthy Cities: Talking with Dr. Len Duhl, Pioneer of Population Health Management https://imaginewhatif.com/how-we-build-healthy-citiies-len-duhl/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 01:58:40 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2318 The Change-Master Series: Deep Dives Into the Essence of Change-Making and Leadership by Joe Flower Twenty years ago we talked in his cramped, book-lined, ex-carport study with the laden plum tree bowing its fruit over the garden gate outside. What Dr. Len Duhl had to say then is, if anything, more true today than it […]

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]]> The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/#comments Tue, 19 May 2015 17:34:19 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2105 A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast pile of money we siphon into health care in the United […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/feed/ 1 Getting Paid to do Better Medicine for Less https://imaginewhatif.com/getting-paid-to-do-better-medicine-for-less/ Wed, 13 May 2015 18:34:14 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2097 Atul Gawande’s new New Yorker article, “Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care,”  brilliantly lays out why and how we are getting so much overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment — testing that is inappropriate, not helpful, and often harmful; diagnosis of problems and abnormalities that are real but actually won’t hurt us; treatment that misses the mark, is […]

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]]> Toss The Default Model https://imaginewhatif.com/toss-the-default-model/ https://imaginewhatif.com/toss-the-default-model/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:19:17 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1939 It’s time to toss the business-as-usual model. The emerging Default Model of health care not only does not work for health care’s customers, it cannot work.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/toss-the-default-model/feed/ 2 The Next Health Care — and the Dark Side https://imaginewhatif.com/divided-faces-of-change/ Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:03:07 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1578 The very forces creating a better, cheaper and more available health care industry also can be used to create monopolies, raise costs and degrade care. Which future strategic model will prevail? Which works best? Which is right?

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