BSG Alliance Announces Acquisition of New Paradigm

Renowned Business/Technology Innovation Visionary Don Tapscott and His NewParadigm Group Acquired by BSG Alliance to Enable Next Generation Enterprises

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- BSG Alliance Corporation, creatorof a unique platform of services and tools to enable organizations to becomenext generation enterprises, today announced the acquisition of New Paradigm,a business innovation group led by international thought leader Don Tapscott.The union of the two companies will accelerate the development of BSGAlliance's Business Innovation Platform and provide New Paradigm with anappropriate venue to deliver their considerable content. Additionally, thecombination of expertise from the two companies will provide Global 2000enterprises with an immediate and actionable set of business plans, processesand collaborative tools for transforming legacy operations into flexible nextgeneration enterprises.

"BSG Alliance was created on the principle of delivering cutting-edgebusiness services and products that are compact, flexible and interconnected,thus allowing organizations to make necessary transformations on demand," saidSteve Papermaster, CEO of BSG Alliance Corp. "Don and his New Paradigm teamhave provided the voice and the vision of digital transformation fordecades -- and today we'll add this expertise into our Business InnovationPlatform. It is a natural fit for organizations looking to exploitcollaborative technologies and processes for business improvement."

From The Digital Economy and Paradigm Shift, to Business Webs and DigitalDivide, and on to The Net Generation and Wikinomics, Tapscott has provided theuniversal language we use today to explain where we have been and where we aregoing. He will retain a leadership role by chairing the BSG Alliance NewParadigm Institute.

"New technology has spurred a cultural revolution that affects the waybusiness is conducted and the economy at large. Profound transformations areoccurring in the way we orchestrate capability to innovate products, services,processes, and organizations -- all of which will build enormous wealth inthis century," said Tapscott. "By uniting with BSG Alliance, we are joiningforces with a world-class team that shares our vision and can execute on itwith the largest organizations in the world. It allows for the expansion ofour global research and relationship business activity while enabling us tobetter help our clients implement the new business models and strategies werecommend." Tapscott's latest book, Wikinomics, co-authored with New Paradigmexecutive Anthony Williams, has been praised globally by the editorial andbusiness community for capturing the profound changes occurring in corporateand government organizations through the power of mass collaboration on aglobal scale.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, the combined companies also haveoffices in Boston, Houston, New York, London and Toronto, serving leadingGlobal 2000 customers on four continents.

"I consistently see company leaders from around the world who struggle tounderstand how to innovate. They are operating with old business models in aworld where new models of collaborative innovation are the only way to win,"said Frank Moss, Director of MIT's Media Lab. "Having Don Tapscott and the NewParadigm team join with Steve Papermaster and the BSG Alliance team is a'paradigm shift' of its own, and should result in powerful new tools andresources to help companies succeed as always-on innovators."

About BSG Alliance Corporation

BSG Alliance, the on-demand platform for next generation enterprises,delivers Enterprise 2.0 from concept to reality. Through its on-demandofferings of technologies, architectures, operating models and applications,BSG Alliance partners with forward-thinking companies and top C-levelexecutives to help them become sustainable leaders in today's hypercompetitiveglobal economy. Customers include American Airlines, Johnson & Johnson, andMarriott, among many others. For more information, please visithttp://www.BSGAlliance.com.