Consulting
Connected Growth & Strategy is an extraordinary external resource to help your team move nimbly in new directions.
We help you identify new opportunities and execute on them – delivering incremental growth, profit and strategic benefits. Whether you’d like to incorporate AI and data science meaningfully into your business toolkit, expand the use of agile development across your org, or track and test emerging business models, CGS will expedite your goals and integrate your team in the solution.
Solutions
Our solutions help your team connect, grow, adapt and win in a changing and competitive digital landscape.
GROWTH INITIATIVES
Launch new growth initiatives without distracting the core team. Identify new revenue opportunities. Rapidly iterate to assess economics and operations requirements to test and scale opportunities.
BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION
Marketplaces, subscription and ecosystem-based business models are a specialty. Looking to move beyond advertising or e-commerce models? We’re an ideal partner to grow revenue and profit.
Strategy & change
We work with your team to identify the opportunity, the path and the desired outcomes. We help leaders develop an innovation mindset across functions in your organization, and gain support for agile development and rapid evolution.
People
ROGER NEAL
Roger Neal leads Connected Growth & Strategy with 20 years of growth and innovation experience across Internet, Media, Marketplaces, Subscriptions, Social and Mobile domains in pioneering roles at eBay, AOL and Gazelle (used mobile device marketplace), as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and a change agent at media companies Time Warner and BusinessWeek in New York.
As founding executive director of NYC Media Lab for the Bloomberg Administration, Roger built a sustaining organization that connects top tech and data researchers at New York’s Universities with digital media and telecom companies to grow the innovation economy of New York City. As GM of BusinessWeek Digital, he led a product partnership and investment in pre-IPO LinkedIn. He has positioned early stage firms to raise over $50 million in Venture Capital. He has written for Forbes and Adweek and has taught at Columbia Business School.
THE CONNECTED NETWORK
The extended Connected Growth network includes dozens of technology, business and product innovators and entrepreneurs in mobile, marketplace and digital media industry. Tap into some of the best minds in the connected ecosystem.