AUSTIN, TX — Dachis Group announced today the acquisition of Alexandria, Virginia based Hinchcliffe & Company, continuing the growth of the international firm with offices servicing clients in the North American, European and Asia/Pacific regions.
The acquisition of Hinchcliffe & Company expands Dachis Group’s ability to deliver enterprise solutions worldwide. This transaction combines the world-renowned Hinchcliffe & Company’s offerings, founded by enterprise luminary Dion Hinchcliffe, with the rapidly expanding Social Business Design professional services practice of the Dachis Group.
“Our joining forces with the Dachis Group team will not only help us serve clients better but in highly effective and innovative new ways,” said Dion Hinchcliffe, Founder of Hinchcliffe & Company. “I am extremely excited to come on board and work with the exceptional talent at the Dachis Group to drive forward the vision for Social Business Design, an approach which I believe will become an essential foundation for 21st century enterprises.”
“I’m excited to have Dion join our team to play a key role as we continue to grow,” said Peter Kim, Managing Director of Dachis Group’s North American operations. “Our ability to deliver social business strategy expands with deep expertise from perspectives spanning social media marketing to Enterprise 2.0.”
“Dion Hinchcliffe is one of the most talented, visible and world-renowned enterprise architects working in IT today,” said Jeffrey Dachis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dachis Group. “His thought leadership, insights and intellect would be valuable to any organization and we are very fortunate he has chosen to join us with his team.” Added Dachis, “Hinchcliffe and Company’s track record, reputation, and efforts to date are nothing short of outstanding.”
Hinchcliffe & Company’s offerings will be folded into the Dachis Group and Dion Hinchcliffe will join the team as a Senior Engagement Manager and will report to Peter Kim, Managing Director of Dachis Group’s North American operations.
About Hinchcliffe & Company
Hinchcliffe & Company is headed by Dion Hinchcliffe, an internationally recognized business strategist and enterprise architect with an extensive track record of building enterprise-class solutions with clients in the Fortune 500, federal government, and Internet startup community.
Dion helps lead the industry by evolving the thinking for next-generation businesses in various social media including ZDNet’s influential Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog and the Web 2.0 Blog. He is extensively published in leading industry periodicals and journals including the Microsoft Architecture Journal, AjaxWorld Magazine, SOA/Web Services Journal, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Social Computing Journal. His thought leading work has been covered in BusinessWeek, CNET News, Wired, CIO Magazine, and other major news outlets.
In addition to helping companies deliver effective Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 solutions with Hinchcliffe & Company, Dion is also is a regular keynote speaker on the topics of Web 2.0, SOA, and Enterprise 2.0 and has presented or keynoted at Web 2.0 Expo, CeBIT, Business Integration Forum, Interop, JavaOne, SOA Web Services Edge, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Office 2.0, and many other major business and software conferences.
He has also been instrumental in pioneering ideas around next-generation SOA and Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) as well as Product Development 2.0, with many of those ideas being developed and shared on his blog Musings and Ruminations on Building Great Systems. He recently co-authored the new book Web 2.0 Architectures for O’Reilly Media.
He is also the founder and owner of the popular Web 2.0 University, the world’s leading education solution for Web 2.0 and next generation SOA as well as The Enterprise 2.0 TV Show.
About Dachis Group
Dachis Group (Dachis Corporation, Inc.) was created to unlock the value of social technologies for large corporate enterprises. Founded in 2008, by Jeffrey Dachis, Dachis Group is a professional services firm based in Austin, Texas, with offices in London and Sydney.
Dachis Group serves global companies including: AXA, BP, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, DeVry University, Intuit, Southern Company and Yum! Brands through three main practice areas consisting of Customer Participation and Engagement, Workforce Collaboration, and Business Partner Optimization.
Dachis Group believes that the future of business lies in a socially calibrated, dynamic business culture that empowers all of its constituents to exchange value. Through a proprietary framework and methodology, and a network of technology alliance partners, Dachis Group helps businesses innovate to capture value through Social Business Design(SM).
The company’s strategy is backed by a commitment from Austin Ventures to build and grow organically and through acquisitions.