Technology >> Analyst Interviews >> December 17, 2001
THOMAS M. KOULOPOULOS is the President and Founder of the Delphi Group,
one of the industry's six most influential consultants, according to
InformationWeek. He is the author of six books, a lecturer at the Boston
College Graduate School of Management and a frequent contributor to
national and international print and broadcast media. Mr. Koulopoulos is
one of the industry's most prolific thought leaders. His insights
provide a beyond-the-edge view of the turbulence created by the
collision of technology and business. Tom Peters has called his writing,
'a brilliant vision of where we must take our enterprises to survive and
thrive.' Mr. Koulopoulos' latest book, The X-Economy, which looks at the
radical economic shifts yet to come from the advent of web-based value
chains, has been praised highly by industry visionaries such as Peter
Drucker, Dee Hock (Founder of Visa International) and Jim Champy (co-
author of Reengineering the Corporation). His presentations are
thoughtful, exciting, unorthodox, and memorable trips through the
evolution of community, commerce and connectivity ' from the ancient
ruins of Ephesus and the humble beginnings of the Sears catalog to the
formation of demand chains and personal portals. Profile
that perception evolve over the next 12'24 months?
Mr. Koulopoulos: There is a public and a personal image of B2B.
