Thomas M. Koulopoulos is the author of four books, president of the Boston-based Delphi Group, professor of Knowledge Management at the Boston College Wallace E.Carroll Graduate School of Management and one of the industry's six most influential consultants according toInformation Week Magazine.

Mr. Koulopoulos is recognized internationally as an industry authority on the subject of knowledge management, workflow and technologies for business process redesign. His books include, Corporate Instinct: Building a Knowing Enterprise for the 21st Century (Wiley, NY), Smart Companies, Smart Tools (Wiley, NY), The Workflow Imperative (Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY), and Electronic Document Management Systems: A Portable Consultant (McGraw-Hill, NY). He is a program consultant for World Business Review, a member of the COMDEX Board of Advisors, and is one of the industry's most sought after speakers, with lectures and seminars taking him around the world for 150 days out of each year. As an active consultant he advises Fortune 500 clients such as Mobil, Chase Manhattan, and the NYSE, and technology vendors on the impact, investment opportunity, and direction of technology.

Although you may have read his insights and analysis of the information industry in publications ranging from Business Week to Computerworld, be forewarned, his insights into the future of information management systems may be crystal clear but they are often unorthodox. Their purpose, however, is simple; to provide a thought provoking context for understanding the dramatic changes that are shaping the future of information systems and the organizations that usethem.