November 29, 2007

BSG Alliance Acquires New Paradigm

Renowned business/technology innovator Don Tapscott and New Paradigm group join BSG Alliance to enable next generation enterprises

BSG Alliance Corporation, led by CEO Steve Papermaster, is the creator of a unique platform of services and tools to enable organizations to become next generation enterprises.

New Paradigm is a business innovation group led by international thought leader Don Tapscott.

The union of the two companies will:

• accelerate the development of BSG Alliance’s Business Innovation Platform

• provide New Paradigm with an appropriate venue to deliver their considerable content

• provide Global 2000 enterprises with an immediate and actionable set of business plans, processes and collaborative tools

• help companies transform legacy operations into flexible, next generation enterprises

From The Digital Economy and Paradigm Shift, to Business Webs and Digital Divide, and on to The Net Generation, Tapscott has provided the universal language we use today to explain where we have been and where we are going. He will retain a leadership role by chairing the BSG Alliance New Paradigm Institute.

Tapscott’s latest best-seller, Wikinomics, co-authored with New Paradigm executive Anthony Williams, has been praised globally by the editorial and business community for capturing the profound changes occurring in corporate and government organizations through the power of mass collaboration on a global scale.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, the combined companies also have offices in Boston, Houston, New York, London and Toronto, allowing them to serve leading Global 2000 customers on four continents.

Quotes

Don Tapscott

New technology has spurred a cultural revolution that affects the way business is conducted and the economy at large. Profound transformations are occurring in the way we orchestrate capability to innovate products, services, processes, and organizations – all of which will build enormous wealth in this century. By uniting with BSG Alliance, we are joining forces with a world-class team that shares our vision and can execute on it with the largest organizations in the world. It allows for the expansion of our global research and relationship business activity while enabling us to better help our clients implement the new business models and strategies we recommend.

Steve Papermaster

CEO, BSG Alliance

BSG Alliance was created on the principle of delivering cutting-edge business services and products that are compact, flexible and interconnected, thus allowing organizations to make necessary transformations on demand. Don and his New Paradigm team have provided the voice and the vision of digital transformation for decades – and today we’ll add this expertise into our Business Innovation Platform. It is a natural fit for organizations looking to exploit collaborative technologies and processes for business improvement.

Frank Moss

Director, MIT's Media Lab

I consistently see company leaders from around the world who struggle to understand how to innovate. They are operating with old business models in a world where new models of collaborative innovation are the only way to win. Having Don Tapscott and the New Paradigm team join with Steve Papermaster and the BSG Alliance team is a "paradigm shift" of its own, and should result in powerful new tools and resources to help companies succeed as always-on innovators.

   Don Tapscott

   CEO of New Paradigm

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   Steve Papermaster

   Chairman and CEO of BSG Alliance Corporation

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams present the first book to truly come to grips with some of the most profound business changes of our time. Wikinomics explains how winning companies innovate and succeed in the emerging Age of Collaboration. Using their knowledge, resources, and computing power, millions of people—consumers, employees, suppliers, business partners, and even competitors—are now self-organizing into a massive collective force. Interconnected and orchestrated through blogs, Wikis, chat rooms, peer-to-peer networks, and personal broadcasting, these individuals are reinventing the Web to provide the first global platform for collaboration.

BSG Alliance, the on-demand platform for next generation enterprises, delivers Enterprise 2.0 from concept to reality. Through its on-demand offerings of technologies, architectures, operating models and applications, BSG Alliance partners with forward-thinking companies and top C-level executives to help them become sustainable leaders in today’s hypercompetitive global economy. Customers include American Airlines, Johnson & Johnson, and Marriott, among many others.

New Paradigm is a business innovation group headed by IT strategist, speaker, and best-selling author Don Tapscott. Since 1993 the New Paradigm team of seasoned research analysts that includes technologists, social scientists, and business experts has been serving clients worldwide. Its interdisciplinary, case-based research approach gives New Paradigm a balanced, holistic, precompetitive view of the future that is unique to the marketplace. The firm "reverse engineers" emerging businesses/business models by looking over the horizon and then distills a set of actionable planning tools that facilitate the implementation of powerful new strategies.

 For a text version of this release, download the pdf: BSG Acquires New Paradigm