Thomas Koulopoulos

Thomas Koulopoulos: Profile

Futurist
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.

Author
His seven books include: Smartsourcing, 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 current book, Smartsourcing: How to Drive Innovation, Jobs, and Growth in the age of Globalization (to be released in the Fall of 2005) 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.