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.
