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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  • Conceptualization as a Superpower

    For a little more than a decade, taught a number of “corporate education” courses with the intention of helping to raise the floor of internal teams as it related to content management and data analytics. One of the more surprising bits of information learned across the years of doing this was a widespread inability to distinguish outputs from outcomes. Some would attend the sessions hoping to “get out of it” a shape of understanding an application for a specific output. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 6 Sept 24 🔗

    ”…the issue with complexity: it is unsustainable without effort.” - Farnham Street Also published: Incompatible with Current Working Behaviors Continue reading →

  • Thought: Incompatible with Current Working Behaviors

    One of the threads connecting our research with sales/opportunities is a framework where this work is based on a different approach to screens and input than most are accustomed. Utilizing a mobile and tablet for the better part of 15 -20 years as a primary computer is something of an alternate reality from the “we just discovered smartphones when Apple did it” contingent. Shoot, when the iPhone was introduced, was using Nokia’s N800 Internet Tablet as a primary device while reporting from an event demoing other upcoming devices. Continue reading →

  • Avancee Reads for 30 Aug 24 🔗

    Had a thought this week. A potential tweak to this initiative: What if your vision had a concierge? Some kind of guide to the future you envision - but they aren’t taking you there. They are merely informed-enough of the possibilities and then you could “rub the bottle” for that insight to be specificly manifested to you? Chewing Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 23 Aug 24 🤧 🤒

    Got knocked down by something today. Hit so fast Oura didn’t even catch it. Speed… speed to connecting to relevant data is key to a lot of this. That’s not artificial intelligence, just values and priorities. Also published: Read the Terms of Service Is There A Difference Now for Social Computing Devices Continue reading →

  • Is There A Difference Now for Social Computing Devices

    Context: Sitting in the usual cafe-office, looking at the devices on the table and recalling a friend’s mention about new wallpaper on their mobiles…sharing wallpapers is such a social thing. If this were the “social computing” setup, I wonder what the “sharing wallpaper” moments would be? In the rise of wearable devices, capability is often touted as being the prime factor for usage. But, that isn’t often the case. There are behaviors - sometimes new or novel - which endear themselves to the adoption and use of those devices which makes or breaks their use. Continue reading →

  • Read the Terms of Service

    Was introduced to a new-to-me web service the other day. As with many, it was “Al” related. So I did my usual… I went to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to see what is going on behind the marketing. In this case, the TOS was not all that… good. So, took at look at the developer’s site and any TOS/privacy policy notes there. This was better. But also concerning. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 16 Aug 24 🔗

    Am not even sure most are paying attention… can we get away with saying anything? With releasing anything? With restricting… what is actually being attended to? Need to check out the terms of service for the days and times. There’s something afoot. Also published: How Avanceé is Using AI/ML Today Continue reading →

  • How is Avanceé Using AI/ML Today

    The straightforward answer is there isn’t a daily use case which is centered around “productivity.” There are the near-invisible cases such as memo-writing based off of feedback from items which come to mind or recent conversations, but these don’t move the needle to what many have talked about using AI/ML for. Well, not for some of is desired for transformers to accomplish. There are some edge uses such as when looking to do comparisons or code changes/enhancements; where previously would go to several sites and piece things together. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 9 Aug 24 🔗

    The rest of summer is unfolding with some uneasy intensity. It’s gonna be interesting to fill out the rest of the season, and what that might mean for fall. Also published: Why Origami? Complications and Re-Engineering AL/ML Complexity Continue reading →