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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  • OpenAI Announcment & Take Away

    Much about yesterday’s AI news was about OpenAI’s ChatGPT update to GPT-4o (omnimodal is what I’m hearing that means). And par the course, I used my Humane AiPin to get a summary update from the announcement. What’s important to take away from this - your tools are shifted (if you are in a space where you need to mix/remix/analyze data streams, aka knowledge work). You need to be more curious (like a data scientist) while also being more creative (pick your favorite medium, then it’s most generative artist). Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 10 May 24 🔗

    Things fare better when we are focused… but then again, entropy does have its way regardless of intention. Continue reading →

  • Contemplative, Focused Computing

    Every time a new iPad is released, or iPadOS is updated, much of the conversation turns to “but can it replace your computer?” I haven’t liked that one bit… and haven’t just replaced laptop/desktop usages, I’ve done bits with its malleable, direct input canvas that (as Steve Jobs noted) fit in between the laptop and mobile modes of work. Attached to this is a note of a conversation - which while solutioning user flows, animed to answer user experience aspects the conversation missed. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 3 May 23 🔗

    Yea, a tick late on posting, but it’s been a heavy end of week. Maybe slowing down isn’t a bad idea for several aspects of things. Also published: Back to Reconsidering Productivity Computing Continue reading →

  • Back to Reconsidering Productivity Computing

    Years back, using mobile devices in various cafes led me to thinking and tinkering with what the accepted-normal was in regards to computers for productivity. I’m pushing thru some lessons regarding identity, security, and LLM/AI - finding this experimentation and exploration ignited afresh. Not so much because I value work - in fact, I think as a concept, it’s not the right way to working thru it. But I do agree that “presence,” “coordination,” and “considerations” move differently than a clamshell keyboard/screen or single glass slab. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 26 April 24 🔗

    I don’t know… something in the air is letting some folks have it. Something in the water is like, “it’s about time you get your stuff together.” Almost like all the elements are conspiring to tell us to pay attention to presence - versus just to ‘attention.’ Also published Developing ICAM Experiences As A Learning Canvas Continue reading →

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  • Developing ICAM Experiences As A Learning Canvas

    Learning and implementing a better and more secure experience pertaining to identity, credentialing, and access management has been something of a mild adventure. From reviewing the specifics of FIDO2, to attending a few security and identity workshops/conferences, there’s this sense I’m one part behind the ball in learning. And yet while looking at the pace of practice/implementation/policy, there feels like a sense of being ahead. This felt crystallized best when asking around the question: “what’s the difference between security and a secure experience? Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 19 April 24 🔗

    Have been doing a thing of posting a few quotes/thoughts on LinkedIn which have made their way thru various conversations. Some of these are working material or insights. Some are just personal bits worth taking off the plate to share more widely. Trying to be a bit better about talking aloud. A bit. Also published Designer’s Evolution Continue reading →

  • Designer’s Evolution

    Spending more time contextualizing the tooling and behaviors other functional units are supposed to have mastery of than manipulating the time/space/components/etc which unlock human capacity. Many times I’m fighting against this evolution because it means more of handling stubbornness and humility at the same time rather than learning, growing, or even reducing the load of information and systems that are being managed or modernized. Am seeing in regulated spaces - or in spaces where companies are transitioning from older mindsets to an agile and trauma informed ones - a manifesting of missing building blocks to those people who are craftspersons. Continue reading →