Avanceé.Agency
Avanceé.Agency
Connecting strategy & leadership with novel/innovative technologies

Avancee is a micro-consulting platform delivering strategic guidance, tailored to the competency maturity of a user or team. Learn more

Services include:

  1. User Experience (UX) & Process/Service Design
  2. Process Research and Business Analysis
  3. Innovation Coaching (incl. Fractional Leadership)

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  • From Scope to Strategy to Tactics

    One of the more challenging aspects of this Avanceé initiative has been in taking some/most of the insights from engagements and distilling them into more widely understood content. Journaling from past experiences can be a heuristic to leverage. Without giving away any proprietary information, can speak of an attempt to shift an executive view from day-to-day reactions, to scoping industry verticals/trends, towards proposing tactics shaped by known constraints and future trends. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 21 June 24 🔗

    Creating a narrative from a series of connections is the work. Taking those narratives and making them applicable to re-engineer complexity is the outcome. Continue reading →

  • Measuring Outcomes

    A friend asked, “how do you know what to measure?” My answer came with a caveat, “measuring only matters where outcomes are clear, shared, and honored.” We then talked about what it looked like to structure onboarding behaviors for new persons to a company or project team. We started not with “here’s what the team needs you to know,” but with “here’s what your job description dictates what you can do, will support us in doing, and how we will support you. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 14 June 24 🔗

    Probably could have add quite a few more things onto the board. Lots of reading though isn’t meant so much for sharing as much as it’s meant to t as a jumper to the next thing. Also published: Affordances and Sustainable Interfacees Evolving Interactivity Continue reading →

  • Evolving Interactivity

    Some recent likes/connections sparked a memory… Many years back, a literal career ago, got a chance to share some penultimate thoughts and approaches to leveraging mobile and social connected tech in non-mainstream & theological contexts (👋🏾 Global Recordings Network, Mission Aviation Fellowship). The keynotes and in-between conversations closed a chapter to a dozen years unpacking a mobile-heavy aspect of viewing connectivity, while opening my perspectives towards a multi-layered and spatially aware canvas. Continue reading →

  • Affordances and Sustainable Product Interfaces

    Posted in the Muse Discord (5 June 24) Every time I click the three dots (usually to change the title or do the connector) and launch into the object versus get the menu,I wonder “what would Muse have evolved to if it didn’t have pointer/mouse affordances like this as a first interaction, but as a toggle-able feature.” Would this been as discoverable if it were a tap-hold menu (borrowing from iPadOS’s press-hold-wiggle that happens with icons on the Home Screen or the platform’s better understood (yet sometimes still hard to find) tap-hold menu? Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 7 June 24 🔗

    Taking a few steps forwards. Also hit the writing stick a bit more than usual. Also published: Thinking Matter Expert Fluidity in Adapting Continue reading →

  • Fluidity in Adapting

    I often use the phrase “ahead and behind at the same time’ to describe what some have describe as my posture with tech/connected living. It is something of a backhanded comment to myself, hewn from the days when I wrote for BargainPDA/Brighthand. It means a feeling of being in front of a change, and also behind well after it was adopted with all the bugs cleaned up, and UX settled. Continue reading →

  • Thinking Matter Expert

    Chatting w/a developer-manager and a data analyst about my Humane AiPin, and one of the phrases which came to the convo was that of a “thinking matter expert.” A spin on subject-matter-expert, and contextual to the sharpening of thinking which some of us prefer to see LLMs, GPTs, etc utilized towards. We’d even chatted some in comparing it to the “thought leader” phrasing. “Thinking matter expert” feels similar and altogether different. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 31 May 24 🔗

    A week of connections summed up well in one of them: “it doesn’t matter what you do or what you promote, the real value comes when you sit down with one another and actually exchange value for value.“ Continue reading →