July 18, 2007 - A newly formed Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) aims to help China develop short term projects to undo the harmful environmental effects of rapid economic growth… Steve Papermaster [chairman and CEO of BSG Alliance], co-chairman of the group’s energy committee and a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, said the project will take a leaf from the Human Genome Project...

Austin, TX – July 18, 2007 - BSG Alliance Corporation, the platform for Next Generation Enterprises On Demand, is proceeding with plans to add 50 new on demand consulting delivery professionals and application developers by year-end as part of its overall personnel expansion and, today, announced the appointment of several key new members of the leadership team, including: Andy Adams, Chief Alliance and Acquisition Officer; Steve Guengerich, Chief Learning Officer; Jeff Milne, Chief Product Officer, BSG On Demand Applications, and; Jim Tipton, Managing Director, Finance.

BSG Alliance new Execs press release-FINAL.pdf

How does BSG’s consulting delivery model differ from more traditional approaches?

BSG helps its customers drive business innovation through use of technology. As a result, our projects are typically highly strategic, often serving complex businesses in situations where packaged software doesn’t exist or is inadequate to meet our customers’ needs. Traditional consulting delivery tends to be overly-focused on driving billable hours rather than delivering business value to the customer. We’ve invested substantial resources to construct a model addressing this shortcoming in the traditional approach.

Earlier this year, we acquired a business strategy consulting group, BSG Concours, as part of our effort to build a new type of consulting model. This acquisition gives us the real capability to define and drive business value, executing projects with high strategic importance and C-level endorsement. From the perspective of this value-based mindset, we’ve examined various project-related factors, such as the available technology and toolsets, software development methodologies, and the composition of our project teams.

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by Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield and Andrew Shimberg

"It is estimated that of the $255 billion spent per year on information technology projects in the United States, more than a quarter is burned up in failures and cost overruns. Project professionals and management experts have attempted to respond to these failures by improving the formal systems related to program governance, project management and project-related technologies. Though these new approaches have produced improved results, with more than two out of three projects continuing to disappoint, however, the authors argue that something is still missing."

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by Lynda Gratton, Andreas Voigt, Tamara Erickson 

"In studying teams at large companies in Europe and the United States, the authors found that diversity and complexity are becoming the rule. Diverse teams bring to bear a range of experiences and attitudes to tackle companies’ hardest challenges. Paradoxically, however, the very nature of team diversity often creates conditions that reduce teams’ innovative capacity.

The authors observed many failures in collaboration and knowledge-sharing that resulted from faultlines — subgroups or coalitions that emerge naturally within teams, typically along demographic lines such as age, gender and functional background. Yet the authors found that some teams were able to collaborate and share knowledge despite the presence of faultlines. A defining factor was the behavior of the team leader and, in particular, the extent to which the leader was task-oriented or relationship-oriented."

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by Stacey Higginbotham

"Call it Enterprise 2.0, the consumerization of the enterprise or even collaborative software.

The result is software for corporate America more closely resembling Facebook than Microsoft Outlook, with collaborative features intended to modernize stodgy business tools. And investors are piling in, albeit far more slowly than those investing in social networks and consumer-oriented Web 2.0 startups."

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Investment to drive aggressive on-demand strategy, targeted acquistions and alliances with customers. Warren Weiss of Foundation Capital and Mitchell Kertzman of Hummer Winblad will join BSG Alliance board. 

Austin, Texas – May 7, 2007 - BSG Alliance Corporation announced that it has secured $20 million in funding. Foundation Capital and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners led the funding with additional participants including Powershift Ventures, L.P.  

BSG Alliance, led by Chairman and CEO Steve Papermaster, specializes in providing high-end strategy, on-demand software and on demand delivery that transform business organizations into “Next Generation Enterprises”.  

“These funds allow us to strengthen our investment in BSG Alliance’s on-demand software offerings, to make targeted acquisitions in the strategy and on-demand delivery areas of our business and provide balance sheet strength to support our existing customer alliances,” says Steve Papermaster. “We are pleased  that such quality firms as Foundation Capital and Hummer Winblad recognize BSG Alliance’s enormous growth potential and are joining us in making that potential a reality.” 

In conjunction with the funding, Warren Weiss of Foundation Capital and Mitchell Kertzman of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners are joining the BSG Alliance Board of Directors. 

Weiss has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry. At Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm led by proven entrepreneurs and focusing on early-stage ventures, he specializes in on-demand technology companies. He has served as president and CEO of four public and private software companies. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Asera, a real-time software solutions provider.

“The traditional model of software delivery is giving way to  web-based, on-demand solutions,” Weiss points out. “BSG Alliance is at the forefront of tapping this burgeoning market. They have a unique go-to-market model and I’m looking forward to playing a role in their success.” 

Mitchell Kertzman is a partner at Hummer Winblad, which was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital firm to focus entirely on the software industry. Kertzman has more than 30 years of experience as a CEO of public and private software companies. Most recently he was Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, a provider of platform software for the delivery of digital services by cable television companies. He was also the founder and CEO of Powersoft, one of the top software IPO’s of the 1990’s and strongest partners of the original BSG. 

“BSG Alliance has assembled an amazing team of business and technology savants and experienced entrepreneurs, from Steve Papermaster on down,” says Kertzman. “That is exactly what is needed for success in the emerging wave of on-demand technology solutions. I’m excited to be part of the BSG team - again”! 

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About BSG Alliance Corp.BSG Alliance helps its customers become Next Generation Enterprises through its on-demand Strategy, Delivery, and Applications offerings. By delivering Enterprise 2.0 technologies, architectures, operating models and applications, BSG partners with forward-thinking companies and top C-level executives to help them become sustainable leaders in today's hypercompetitive global economy. For more information please visit www.bsgalliance.com.

Read the full news release:  BSG Financing Release Final 5 7 07 10 20 a m.doc

BSG enters Financial Services On Demand market with new Financial Services Office in New York City.

BSG Alliance Launches Financial Services Initiative with Opening of New York City Office

Appoints leadership team to bring on-demand, ‘next generation’ revolution to Wall Street

New York – June 18, 2007 - BSG Alliance Corporation, the enterprise transformation company that helps businesses leverage on-demand strategy, software, and technology delivery to become Next Generation Enterprises, today announced the launch of its financial services initiative under the leadership of Thomas M. Steinthal and the opening of its New York City office.

“The financial services industry is the perfect market to adopt the on-demand, Enterprise 2.0 model, because it is global, information-intensive, and hypercompetitive,” said Steve Papermaster, Chairman and CEO of BSG Alliance. “BSG Alliance is very excited about the feedback we are getting from the marketplace, from companies seeking further innovation and time-to-market advantage. We believe BSG’s transformational approach is a perfect match and we are very pleased that Tom Steinthal has joined us to lead BSG’s financial services initiative.”

Steinthal, who will serve as Managing Director of BSG Alliance’s financial services team, has eighteen years of capital markets technology experience. He is recognized as an industry expert in the areas of equities, electronic capital markets, regulatory compliance, straight-through processing enablement, IT audit and operational risk. Prior to joining BSG, Mr. Steinthal was founder and president of a financial services consulting organization with clients including Lazard Freres, ADP, and the Griswold Company. Mr. Steinthal has also worked with in-house IT and trading staffs at firms such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. Mr. Steinthal has also worked on various industry committees with the NASD and NASDAQ.

“With our team’s deep roots with Wall Street and the Enterprise 2.0 strategy, software, and delivery capability of BSG, we believe we are bringing something very unique to the financial services industry,” said Mr. Steinthal. “BSG will bring together a comprehensive set of services including strategic frameworks, on-demand application technologies, expert financial services industry acumen, and experienced web 2.0 software development technologists, critical to the future competitiveness of any financial services industry leader.”

About BSG Alliance Corp.

BSG Alliance helps its customers become Next Generation Enterprises through its on-demand Strategy, Delivery, and Applications offerings. By delivering Enterprise 2.0 technologies, architectures, operating models and applications, BSG partners with forward-thinking companies and top C-level executives to help them become sustainable leaders in today's hypercompetitive global economy. For more information, please visit http://www.bsgalliance.com.

Details are available in the Press Release found here.  NewYorkOfficePR061807.pdf

BSG Alliance, the on-demand strategy, software and delivery company that transforms business organizations into “next generation enterprises” announced that it has acquired The Concours Group, a highly respected high-end strategy and executive education company. With The Concours Group’s client-base of over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies, this transaction places BSG at the forefront of helping global firms transform into 2.0, next generation enterprises.

“The acquisition of a leading industry-recognized strategic resource such as The Concours Group shows our dedication to and intent on being the number one firm for the creation of the ondemand enterprise,” says Steve Papermaster, BSG’s Chairman. “We see a rising need in quickly transforming enterprises from the inside out and no one has the experience of discovering how to transform strategy into results like The Concours Group. Their leadership approach is in total alignment with our on-demand strategy, software and delivery view. I can’t imagine a better fit with our vision.”

Dr. Ronald P. Christman, President of BSG Concours, agrees. “Our clients are under increasing pressure to take advantage of global business changes underway, and have results now. Joining with BSG Alliance gives us the ability to execute dynamically on the innovative approaches our client-driven strategy creates. In BSG we saw a partner who understood what it is going to take to fully transform an enterprise into the next generation. We can now offer continuous strategy coupled with continuous change for the on-demand enterprise.”

The acquisition of The Concours Group:

• Strengthens BSG’s position as a 2.0 “change agent” by expanding offerings in the areas of research, consulting and education that is designed to equip clients with future-oriented, value-creating best practices.

• Reaffirms and strengthens BSG’s presence as a provider to C-level executives of top-tier organizations. With over 200 of the Fortune 500 represented in Concours’ client base, BSG will have a greatly expanded “classroom” in which to educate businesses on how to best take advantage of the 2.0, on-demand revolution.

• Establishes BSG as the one-stop, next generation enterprise transformation provider. There are a myriad of ways to take advantage of the on-demand revolution, from Software-as-a-Service to wikis and blogs to customized, discrete Software-as-a-Service solutions than can deliver game changing business advantage. The acquisition positions BSG as a complete bridge to the 2.0 world, from strategy to design to execution.

"The Concours Group has mastered a rare and valuable formula," says Carl Wilson, Executive Vice President & CIO of Marriott International, Inc., one of Concours' customers. "They integrate research, consulting, and education to turn human capital and technological potential into business value. We are very happy to be working with them, and expect that the BSG acquisition will bring even greater possibilities to our relationship going forward."

The combined leadership of BSG and Concours will give clients a leadership team of proven entrepreneurs and business professionals with extensive experience in helping companies innovate to take full advantage of shifts in technology paradigms.

David Shaffer, Executive Chairman of the Board, Thomson Learning and customer of the Concours Group summed up the outlook for the acquisition. "Concours has been one of the most innovative consulting companies I have worked with in my career. Their commitment to driving intellectual capital into the consulting experience has been evident in the work we have completed with them. As a member of the Concours Board from its inception, I believe this combination of firms will drive an improved transformational experience for their collective and prospective clients."

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About BSG Alliance Corp.

BSG Alliance helps its customers become Next Generation Enterprises through its on-demand Strategy, Delivery, and Applications offerings. By delivering Enterprise 2.0 technologies, architectures, operating models and applications, BSG partners with forward-thinking companies and top C-level executives to help them become sustainable leaders in today's hypercompetitive global economy. For more information please visit www.bsgalliance.com.

Read the full news release:   ConcoursFinalPR.pdf