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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  • Design’s Dialects

    Across a few previous projects, one shape of deliverable was a data dictionary, or some type of subject-genre lexicon. The prevailing thought for this: a set of orders for the collective members of the team to understand the work to be done, and then translate into a comment language for outcomes (those created and those external). Sensemaking methods were used to establish common terms. In one project, this lexicon became a sprawling mess of pages, terms, external references, and eventually a consolidated playbook. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 4 Feb 22 🔗

    Also published: One-Buttons Successes Continue reading →

  • One-Button Successes

    “Can you help me just get this process down to where I can click one button and it does what I need?” There’s an anxiety and an excitement in these kinds of questions. Partially because it meets at the very thin intersection between outputs and outcomes. And at this boundary-place, there’s a navigation of expectations and enablement which can make or break an engagement. It’s in this space where the phrase (re)engineering complexity gets its legs. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 28 Jan 22 🔗

    Also published: Sharpening A Few Arrows Read other articles here. Continue reading →

  • Sharpening A Few Arrows

    Have been encouraged over the past few weeks with several conversations about what this initiative is about. Into that end, many of those conversations have sparked a few refinements to previous ideas. In some cases, they’ve confirmed approaches, while in other cases they’ve lent a different perspective. What’s been good about this is the journaling that happens afterwards, it offers an opportunity to sharpen some of those arrows for eventual offerings or experiments. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 21 Jan 22 🔗

    Also published: Three Leg Table Continue reading →

  • Three Leg Table

    Over the course of many years of mentoring and coaching, there’s been a common axiom shared with folks to help them identify a specific gap in development/maturity: A three legged table is very stable. What legs do you have? Many people do not realize that in personal and professional matters, it makes sense to have a balance of three layers of people around you. The first layer, teacher/mentor. The second layer, best friend(s)/road buddy. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 14 Jan 22 🔗

    New year and the reading, linking, threading, and thematic interludes continue. One of the more fascinating aspects of last year’s reads was the continuity. Hoping to keep that up, with a few more original pieces to keep threading these also. Also published: A Bit Off the Cuff Also appeared on: Wealthy Tiger Podcast: Theology and the Metaverse Continue reading →

  • Podcast: Theology and the Metaverse

    The other week, got a chance to hang with an old friend Nigel Scott (@ExCapite) on his new podcast conversations space Wealthy Tiger. The topic of this conversation started around the idea of the metaverse being another theological expression. And per usual, the conversation took some delightful routes (rites of passage, the depth of connecting, and more). Take a watch or listen and use your social spaces to comment and add variety (tag us on Twitter via @AvanceeAgency). Continue reading →

  • A Bit Off the Cuff

    Over the past many weeks, have had several conversations, and really insightful pieces of wisdom from various persons, about the future of Avanceé. One of the things very clear about this initiative is that it’s something that really doesn’t require a lot of thought to get behind. When explaining the intention for this initiative, it resonates very quickly. But I think most of that comes from the aspect of being able to knit someone’s context to the story of reengineering complexity. Continue reading →