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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  • You Aren’t Looking for A Coach

    Here’s something that stuck out getting to the middle of this piece: you aren’t looking for a coach. …People buy business books because they’re hoping for frameworks to solve their immediate problems (getting more leads, improving sales, scaling staff.) Choice isn’t like that. It’s a self-help book disguised as a business book. It’s about finding your way in a world gone mad. One that’s designed to distract you. But, it was positioned as a book to help you make more money. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 21 Mar 25 🔗

    Another week, and another step taken forward. A great kickoff of the Sales Effectiveness Roundtable with the Central Maryland Chamber of Commerce goes along with insights towards activity, expected behavior of websites and apps, and what constitutes access. Also published: Torque Wrenches Timelines: Brigadoon Annapolis ♾️ Continue reading →

  • Timelines: Brigadoon Annapolis ♾️

    Timelines is a recast or rewind to spark old thoughts or ignite new ones. This timeline focuses on our moments presenting at Brigadoon Annapolis. Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt.1 Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt.2 Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt.3 Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt.4 Brigadoon Annapolis via Kownacki Brigdoon Annapolis on Snap Learn more about upcoming Brigadoon Live events Continue reading →

  • Torque Wrenches

    Some weekends ago was working on one of my bicycles. I had a little bit of squeaking and went to use a torque wrench and the guidance of the user manual to make sure that items were in the correct set. When I got around to the headset, stem, I noticed they were definitely not according to specification. They were in fact, too loose to safely continue riding. So I began to tighten them according to the Newton meters prescribed within the manual. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 14 Mar 25 🔗

    Generally, the shape of connections between our intentions and reality are our to make. Whether you tune those connections, or tension them, both ends of this connection valuable enough to hold… for a time. Also published: An Inevitability of AI Doing Something Continue reading →

  • An Inevitability of AI Doing Something

    AI tools of this moment is only good enough to ensure compliance and comfort for this part of the change. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 7 Mar 24 🔗

    Across the week, there were a few moments of inspiration and connection. The knitting of all of these is some kind of lesson to a series of travels brokered by connectivity, but constantly looking ahead to whatever is happening next. Also published: Timelines March 2018’s Link Shares ♾️ Coming Soon: Avanceé co-facilitating a Sales Effectiveness workshop at the Central Maryland Chamber of Commerce. Learn more and join us. Continue reading →

  • Timelines: March 2018’s Link Shares ♾️

    Trying a new thing called “Timelines.” Pulling on older posts to revisit the paths taken or remind of what’s been happening. Let’s start with the initial link shares which launched this effort: 2 March 18 9 March 18 16 March 18 26 March 18 30 March 18 Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 28 Feb 25 🔗

    With the shutdown of the AiPin, our experience and experiment has come to a bittersweet end. There’s always lessons in the journey. And as always, this means simply to shift forward to the next things. Also published: Opining About Human-Centered Design in Civic Tech Continue reading →

  • Opining about Human-Centered Design in Civic Tech

    Cropping a convo for a wider eye/lens… the context being design/human-centered design in (a/some) #CivicTech spaces How to be human centered when the operational objective isn’t to be humane, but to be operationally more proficient… such is the design challenge to transform its approach and posture once again Could probably drop tools/practices and just focus towards training and behavioral development… use the “tools/practices” as the languages and impress a heuristic of product agility, operational versatility, and “readiness to {outcome}” as the pillars. Continue reading →