Tom Koulopoulos is president and founder of Delphi Group, a Boston-based
thought leadership firm providing advice on leading edge technologies to global
2000 organizations and government for the past 15 years. He sold Delphi to
Perot Systems in 2004 and continues to serve as CEO of Delphi and as a member
of the Perot Systems leadership team.
Named one of the industry's most influential information management consultants
by InformationWeek magazine he is recognized as an authority on the
implications of information technology on global organizations, with articles
and market insights appearing frequently in national and international print
and broadcast media such as BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The
Economist, CNBC, CNN and NPR.
His books include: Corporate Instinct, Smart Companies, Smart Tools, and The
X-economy. During the past two decades Mr. Koulopoulos works have introduced
core industry concepts, frameworks and vernacular such as Single Point of
Access, Touch Points, Digital Control Rooms, Business Operating Systems,
Corporate IQ, Information Value Chains, and Smartsourcing that are widely used
today in describing the impact of technology on business. His insights have
received wide praise from luminaries such as Peter Drucker, Dee Hock, and Tom
Peters who called his writing, "a brilliant vision of where we must take our
enterprises to survive and thrive." According to Peter Drucker, Tom's writing
makes you question not only the way you run your business but the way you run
yourself.
He is also editor of the Delphi Report, a quarterly journal for business and
technology leaders.
His book, Smartsourcing: How to Drive Innovation, Jobs, and Growth in the age
of Globalization looks at the core drivers and broad implications of
outsourcing and globalization. Mr. Koulopoulos has also been an adjunct
professor at the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll Graduate School of
Management and a guest lecturer at the Boston University School of management
and Harvard University.
His philanthropic interests include being a founding advisor to the non-profit
Tech Foundation, which makes technology accessible to the non-profit sector in
an attempt to bridge the widening digital divide.
BizTech: Managing the Collision of Business and Technology.
The Uncertainty Principle: Building a Sense and Respond Organization.
Managing Knowledge: The Myth and the Reality of Managing Knowledge and Those
Who Own It.
The Future of Globalization: Coping With and Profiting From the Effects of
Globalization.
FutureTech: A Look at the Evolution of Technology and Organization in the Next
Decade.
