- Theodore Modis
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Theodore Modis (born 1943) is a strategic business analyst, futurist,
physicist , and international consultant.He went to
Columbia University , New York, where he received a Masters inElectrical Engineering and a Ph.D. inPhysics . Dr Modis carried out research in particle-physics experiments atBrookhaven National Laboratories andCERN , before moving to work atDigital Equipment Corporation for more than a decade as the head of a management science consultants group. He has taught atColumbia University , theUniversity of Geneva , the European business schoolsINSEAD and IMD, and was a professor at [http://www.duxx.mx/ DUXX Graduate School of Business Leadership] inMonterrey , Mexico between 1998-2001. He has been in the advisory board of the international journal "Technological Forecasting & Social Change" since 1991. [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/505740/editorialboard]He has published about one hundred articles in scientific and in business journals, as well as four books: "Predictions", "Conquering Uncertainty", "An S-Shaped Trail to Wall Street" (treating the
New York Stock Exchange as anecosystem ), and "PREDICTIONS: 10 Years Later". His books have appeared in a number of other languages; "Predictions" has been translated into German, Japanese, and Greek, and "Conquering Uncertainty" has been translated intoChinese Long Form ,Chinese Short Form , Japanese, and Dutch.He is also the founder of "Growth Dynamics", a Swiss-based organization specializing in business strategy, strategic forecasting and management consulting.
Dr. Modis currently lives in
Lugano ,Switzerland .Partial bibliography
* "An S-Shaped Trail to Wall Street - Survival of the Fittest Reigns at the Stock Market", (Growth Dynamics), Geneva, Switzerland, April 1999, and Mass Market Paperback, 1999
* "Conquering Uncertainty: Understanding Corporate Cycles and Positioning Your Company to Survive the Changing Environment" BusinessWeek Books (McGraw-Hill), New York, June 1998.
* "Predictions - Society's Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992
* "Predictions: - 10 Years Later", (Growth Dynamics), Geneva, Switzerland, October 2000.
* [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tmodis/TedWEB.htm Forecasting the Growth of Complexity and Change] , "Technological Forecasting & Social Change", 69, No 4, 2002 - an essay about the growth ofcomplexity in the universe.External links
* [http://www.growth-dynamics.co.gr/ Homepage]
* [http://www.growth-dynamics.com/ "Growth Dynamics"]
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