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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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  • The Wisdom of Frameworks

    Many years ago, had a wise person say to take the work and distill it into (reusable, compostable) frameworks. If I would do this well, it wpuld leave a distinct impression compared to others who might enter roles in more traditional methods (certifications, degrees, networking, etc). I’ve leveraged common, uncommon, and personal frameworks quite often to a positive effect because of that wisdom. Some days ago, Zapier’s chart of “AI fluency characteristics” came across the screen again. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 1 Aug 25 🔗

    At the beginning of the month, you are supposed to take inventory of things. Make sure that you have rooms cleaned out. Blow cinnamon into your homes. And reset according to a better state of mind. And particularly this month when the days will start getting shorter more noticeably. Move accordingly. Also published: A Website, An App, or An Agent Continue reading →

  • A Website, An App, or An Agent

    Was getting ready for a network and research call when again having flashbacks of using the “secretary“ (Humane AiPin) as a research assistant and meeting prep device. I started to get discouraged and then moved over to the Brilliant Labs Frame glasses to try and shoehorn some of the usage there and thought about another context where it may be possible to leverage the connectivity to open AI, Perplexity, Gemini, etc. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 25 July 25 🔗

    Now that the summer is in full swing, there’s a challenge and shape to dealing with the side of things which has slowed. Slower items aren’t because they are exhausted but because there’s something on deck. That said, it’s now the part of the summer where interest and intensity picks up. Being capable of seeing and steering oneself is a part of validating lessons from the spring. Also published: Thoughts on Procurement and Communicarion Continue reading →

  • Thoughts on Procurement and Communication

    Attended a minor business procurement conference recently and like many networking-oriented items, this was a lot of conversations, business card swapping, and hopeful contract meshing. Avanceé is not exactly within this side of space, but it makes sense to go to these affairs to get an idea of the technical and operational hurdles our target market identifies with. If you will, it’s not so much the folks looking to get work done we focus on, but those folks who technically and operationally have gaps where they might try to leverage better relationships or acquisitions to fulfill. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 18 July 25 🔗

    Movement into the summer is one part handling the heat and another part handling the pacing. Thankfully, there’s enough variety in both to create spaces for contemplation as well as renewed activity. Also published: Speed, Velocity, and Tempo Continue reading →

  • Speed, Velocity, and Tempo

    Having a conversation adjacent to a previous about the “three-legged table” - business, IT, and UX (or CX if you prefer the larger wrapper) - brought to the table a wonder if there’s something similar to speed (business: time to market, market response, product development, etc) or velocity (IT: build response, component maturation, product management viability, etc). The word which came to mind for CX/UX was “tempo.” Why? There is an orchestration which happens in measuring or managing the experience lifecycle of a product, program, or service. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 11 July 25 🔗

    Thought I’d setup a near automation to do these via an Apple a shortcut,but it didn’t quite work. That’s ok. The summer is for experimenting some, and reflecting some more. I’ll figure something forward. And maybe even develop some refined flavors of these shares. Also published: Avanceé Articles in 2025 So Far Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Articles in 2025 So Far

    Last year, we published a mid-year compilation noting the editorial-type pieces posted in the first half of the year. With 2025 a few weeks more than half complete, it makes sense to do the same for this year. Jan 2025 On Data Visualizations and Decisions OpenAI Operator Quick Thoughts Considerations and Certifications Feb 2025 Stumbling As Agility Update to Brilliant Labs Frame 👓 Experiment Opining about Human-Centered Design in Civic Tech March 2025 Timelines: March 2018’s Link Shares ♾️ An Inevitability of AI Doing Something Torque Wrenches Timelinses: Brigadoon Annapolis ♾️ You Aren’t Looking for A Coach April 2025 Timelines: Musings on Productivity ♾️ UX Solutions Architecture - Four Pillars Chatting about Muse Today Making AR More Useful On Perspective May 2025 When Do We Get to Molding Video: How Muse Fits Avancee’s Workflow A View of This Connected Time Articulating Something Through the Noise Peeled Thoughts Rarely Shared June 2025 Reviewing Past Fractional Clarity Clarity of Costs WWDC 25 Quick Thought on iPadOS Working with Refreshed Tools Difference Between What You Are Selling and What You Are Selling Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 4 July 25 🔗🇺🇸

    Feels like this isn’t the best of times, but certainly not exactly the worst. Freedom is weird like that. Free isn’t a dome. Continue reading →