Austin, Texas headquartered BSG Alliance announced yesterday the acquisition of The Concours Group, based in the Houston area. Wasn’t it only yesterday that BSG announced $20M in funding from Hummer Winblad and Foundation Capital? It was two weeks ago, but it seems like just yesterday.
The Concours Group is a strategic consulting company. James Champy (co-author of the seminal book Reengineering the Corporation) was a key player in the formation of Concours after he sold his Index consulting group to CSC Corporation in 1988. Company founder Dr. Ron Christman will preside over the BSG Concours division. If BSG is going to be providing strategic consulting around Enterprise 2.0, then this acquisition is certainly a great way to get into the executive suite at 300 of the Fortune 1000.
In the interest of full disclosure, I sold a consulting company to BSG back in 1996 and worked for the company for a year and a half. So I’m very familiar with the rapid pace of company founder Steve Papermaster. Steve also recently spoke at the Austin Clean Energy Venture Summit that I wrote about here.
I’m sure the company will achieve incredible success.















