Interdisciplinary excellence

 

Newton Halewood offers flexible support for projects and ongoing activities, in companies, academic institutions, social enterprises, non-profit organisations and informal projects. We specialise in cross-disciplinary work related to emerging internet and digital technologies, connecting people with different backgrounds and skills, to work together and get the right stuff done. Advisory support as a critical friend is also available for projects and ventures.

 

Innovation and technology development

finding the best path and building the right things in a rapidly changing digital and global landscape

Newton Halewood can help you plan and build technology products and solutions, and design, develop and implement your strategy. We can manage projects, design and facilitate workshops for your team, and coach individuals through technology strategy development, and product and service design and test. 

We help individuals and teams identify, explore and solve problems, evaluate and balance risks and opportunities, and keep things moving. Newton Halewood also have expertise in tech ethics and responsible tech development practices.

Developing practical and realistic products and services which deliver business objectives as well as sustainable and human-centric design is at the heart of what we do.

Enabling diverse teams

creating and empowering productive and creative groups and communities 

Newton Halewood supports delivery of successful products and projects, by enabling groups of specialists with very different backgrounds and skills to work well together. We specialise in building and coordinating collaborative teams within many kinds of organisation, and enabling them to work together creatively, effectively and efficiently. 

We have extensive experience in finding and implementing the best tools and ways of working to enable groups to get the right things done. Supporting distributed and remote teams and collaborations is a speciality.

Newton Halewood specialise in cross-disciplinary activities, bringing together people from different technical fields, industry sectors, user communities and more.

Newton Halewood can also create clear, well written documents to help people understand things and each other, including working with highly technical material.

 

plants.jpeg

Scaling up and managing change

expert practical advice and HANDS-ON HELP, working with you to achieve your goals

It can be challenging to grow your organisation and evolve structures and processes whilst keeping working effectively and maintaining morale.  It can be tough to decide whether to change strategic direction and how much to involve your team in the decisions, and to lead through times of change. Newton Halewood can help you with advice and mentoring, board support, interim general and technical management, and technology project management support.  We offer a high quality service, being productive in new fields and situations exceptionally quickly, without treading on toes. 

New or growing ventures can benefit from our expert advice, critical friend support and ideas from other fields and sectors.

Our skills are drawn from varied experience in technology operations and development in startups (commercial, social enterprise, co-op and not-for-profit), higher education, and R&D.


Newton Halewood offers flexible and agile consultancy, and we can support you to figure out your next steps, even if you aren't sure where to start.  Get in touch and we can help you think through problems, identify opportunities and find the best way forward.  

We have strong experience in diverse fields including: open data and open hardware, remote manufacturing, user research and human-centric design, humanitarian aid, remote and distributed teams, connected home, machine learning, Internet of Things, distributed energy systems, conversational interfaces, collaborative learning and research tools.  If you are looking for support in other domains, that's great - we are experts at transferring skills and know-how to new areas, learning quickly and bringing a wealth of experience to solve your problems.

Contact us

Email info@newton-halewood.co.uk to discuss how we can help you.