Planning Ahead: How Do You Ensure Better Outcomes? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 123

Issue 123, August 24, 2023

With all the data at our disposal, why aren’t we connecting the dots to ensure better outcomes? To be more specific, let’s look at our healthcare system – and you can use it as a metaphor for your own strategic planning.

Next Gen Career Shifts

Take two trends: the US population is aging and so many next gens are more interested in entrepreneurship and tech startups than medicine as a career. What are the unintended consequences? There are not now, nor will there be enough physicians and healthcare workers in the near future to care for our population. Projections show the gap will continue at least through 2034.

You could make the same parallel for the future of education, retail, transportation, and manufacturing. These sectors are losing out to other more glamorous career options. Part of the problem is that these industries do not market themselves as fulfilling careers matched by desirable compensation.

Retail, for example, is perceived by next gens as limite…