关于headshift
Headshift specialises in the research and development of innovative online applications that build lasting value in the real world through online social interaction.
We work with companies and public organisations to:
- Research and analyse the behaviour of existing online communication systems and help restructure them where necessary.
- Develop strategies for online communication, using tactics that place the needs of people before technology.
- Promote cultural transformation using knowledge sharing, self-managed learning, and inclusive stakeholder communication techniques.
- Conceive, build and manage online social applications that create value by providing meaningful user experiences.
Headshift offers a unique combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, real-world business expertise, award-winning experience in the development of online applications, and a deep understanding of the social impact of information and communication technologies.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our analysis, and we are confident we can demonstrate this in response to a client brief.
specific services
- research, analysis & strategy development
- online communication support
- design & build of online social applications
- project & supplier management
levels of engagement
- site support
- project engagement
- retained consultancy
- joint partnership
values
We value trust and transparency, which we apply equally to our client work, our commercial arrangements, and all our dealings with partners and staff because we believe that the development of trust relationships among stakeholders is key to the survival of knowledge organisations in the 21st Century.
As online communication professionals, we believe we have a particular responsibility to promote meaningful uses of internet-related technologies that have a positive impact on peoples’ lives.
key people
Headshift’s founders, Lee Bryant and Livio Hughes, are the former Chief Operations Officer and Chief Executive Officer, respectively, of an award-winning Internet consultancy they co-founded in March 1996 and left recently to focus on their true passion: research, consulting and innovation.
Since 1996, Lee and Livio have led a wide variety of online consulting, design and development projects, working with a diverse range of businesses and organisations in the corporate, public and voluntary sectors. Some of the clients they have worked with include household names, respected professional and academic institutes, and well-known public sector organisations. They have helped them all achieve real-world benefits from online communications. Many of these projects have won some of the online industry's top awards in e-government, e-learning, customer service and online brand development. Some of these have also established communication standards and stand as examples of best practice in their sector.
Since establishing Headshift, Lee and Livio have quickly built a new and diverse client portfolio – but the quality of the engagements remains as high as ever, and their focus is always the same: build lasting value in the real world through online social interaction.
In a personal capacity, Lee and Livio are also engaged pro bono in a number of not-for-profit educational ICT projects throughout
our network
Headshift is the lead partner in a network of specialist consultants, developers and professional services firms built up through collaborative working over the past seven years. This network can be called upon on support individual assignments as required, but we are able to keep our rates low by only involving specialist staff where required.
All Headshift partners are market leaders in their respective business areas, which include:
· Business process mapping and analysis
· Change management consulting and delivery
· Corporate learning and training
· Executive coaching and mentoring
· Brand consulting
· Business-to-employee communications
· Customer strategy and CRM
contacts
Livio Hughes
T 0870 141 7111
M 07740 292260
Lee Bryant
T 0870 141 7111
M 07956 568122
key people: profiles
Lee Bryant is an on-line communication and community specialist with a focus on knowledge development. Lee has a strong belief in the empowering potential of the Internet, and a commitment to the development of an international knowledge-based society that can transcend cultural and economic barriers.
Prior to becoming involved with the Internet, Lee wrote and researched in the field of International Relations, focusing on the role of international organisations in political crisis, specialising in the former
During the Bosnian conflict, Lee helped organise support for local humanitarian organisations, and travelled widely throughout the country. In 1993, Lee provided media liaison on behalf of the Bosnian delegation to the
It was his experience of running a highly responsive international information network during this time which first stimulated Lee's interest in using internet and other communication technologies to achieve horizontal communication flows that put people and organisations in control of their own self-representation.
He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10 and published his first code aged 11.
Livio Hughes began his career in scientific support roles at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in
Before co-founding tmg, Livio lectured on several undergraduate political theory and philosophy courses at the
Livio has also taught current affairs and media studies at the City Literary Institute.
Livio has also provided research and consultancy on political issues to national and international news and current affairs programmes, such as Newsnight, Panorama, World in Action and Dispatches. He has also worked with the Sunday Times and Private Eye.
Livio’s interest in the Internet stems from the time when – as a postgraduate student using the medium for research – he first grasped the excitement of the paradigm shift implied by direct communication, the bypassing of traditional media representation, and the generation of new and largely untested economic, social and cultural models.
Areas of special interest for Livio include business models for competing in the digital economy, globalisation, media convergence and online communities.
