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Theodore Modis
Theodore Modis is a physicist, futurist, strategic analyst, and international consultant. In 1994 he founded Growth Dynamics, an organization specializing in strategic forecasting and management consulting. He employs cross-discipline techniques to analyze data and provide innovative answers to questions concerning the future with emphasis on market trends, business strategy, and change management.
He studied electrical engineering (Bachelor, Masters) and subsequently physics (Ph.D.) at Columbia University in New York. He worked for 15 years as researcher in high-energy physics experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratories and Europe's CERN. In 1984 he joined Digital Equipment Corporation where he lead a group of management-science consultants dealing with the forecasting process at all levels from strategic issues down to the concrete aspects of implementation and the creation of software applications.
He is author/co-author to about 100 articles in scientific and business journals. In 1997 his article Genetic Re-Engineering of Corporations, won the Outstanding-Paper-of-the-Year Award in the international journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change.
His book Predictions - Society's Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future, (Simon & Schuster, 1992) popularized the use of natural laws in forecasting. His second book Conquering Uncertainty Understanding Corporate Cycles and Positioning Your Company to Survive the Changing Environment, (McGraw-Hill, 1998), addressed the questions why companies change, how they change, and how they grow. His book An S-Shaped Trail to Wall Street, (Growth Dynamics, 1999), treated the stock market as an ecosystem in which stocks compete for investors money and the best one wins. Contrary to usual forecasting practice, he confronted his own forecasts with his book Predictions 10 Years Later, (Growth Dynamics, 2000). His latest book Street Science A Physicist's Wanderings off the Beaten Track, (under publication) is in popular format and searches for scientific fallout that has street value.
He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Geneva, and at the European business schools INSEAD and IMD. He was also a member of the faculty of DUXX Graduate School in Business Leadership, in Monterrey, Mexico. He lives in Lugano, Switzerland.
His interests include music, psychology, and philosophy.