Theodore Modis

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Theodore Modis is a strategic business analyst, futurist, physicist, and international consultant.

He went to Columbia University, New York. where he received a Masters in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physics. Dr Modis carried out research in particle-physics experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratories and CERN, before moving to work at Digital Equipment Corporation for more than a decade as the head of a management science consultants group. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Geneva, the European business schools INSEAD and IMD, and is professor at DUXX Graduate School of Business Leadership, in Monterrey, Mexico.

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 an ecosystem), and PREDICTIONS: 10 Years Later (an ebook - in electronic print-and-read edition PDF format and CD-ROM). 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 into Chinese 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.

[edit] 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.
Forecasting the Growth of Complexity and Change, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 69, No 4, 2002 - an essay about the growth of complexity in the universe.