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The Future of Health Care

Industry Compass 2.0Industry Compass 2.0 provides a framework to help you more effectively navigate the complex transformations on the horizon of the life sciences and health care landscape. With this tool, explore questions such as:

  • How will the health landscape evolve over the next decade?
  • What trends and potentially disruptive issues within the global health economy will present new opportunities and challenges?
  • As an industry stakeholder, how can you make better decisions today while strategically preparing for the world of tomorrow?

What is Industry Compass 2.0? 

Produced by Deloitte LLP’s Health Sciences & Government practice and the Institute for the Future’s (IFTF) Health Horizons Program, Industry Compass 2.0 is a visual guide designed to help you think about, plan for and navigate the future in an engaging and constructive way. It supports strategic analysis and planning around the puzzling grid of potential trends and issues confronting life sciences companies, health care providers, health plans and other stakeholders in the coming decade. The major elements of the Compass map – Drivers, Impact Zones, Trends, Signals, Hurdles, Landmarks and Artifacts – provide a framework for discussing how the elements might interact and how your organization might navigate the future.

There are multiple ways to use this tool. Select one of the following as your starting point to access the map:

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  • Drivers
    Explore the driving forces shaping change over the next decade for organizations in the global health economy.
  • Impact Zones
    Explore five areas – people, networks, markets, practices and tools – the key domains in which we see change occurring.
  • Trends
    This framework identifies more than 45 trends that are shaping the future. These trends are found at the intersections of Drivers and Impact Zones.
  • Artifacts from the Future
    Explore the set of plausible internally consistent scenarios of the future represented as objects found in everyday life in 5-10 years.
  • Landmarks
    Examine some of the strategic questions confronting industry stakeholders as they define and navigate the future.

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  • Article Watch a Video
    A step-by-step demonstration on how to us the Compass.
  • Contact Us
    Order a hard copy version of the map or speak with us directly.
  • Glossary of Terms
    A reference guide to new concepts and definitions.
  • Meet the Contributors
    Profile of Compass team members.
  • Health Sciences
    Deloitte's health care practice.

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