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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  • Notable Reads for 22 Feb 🔗

    Fast and slow. A reminder of the cold of winter, the persistence of bias, and the surprise of ingenuity. These swings are merely the moments of life’s extremes, with life being defined by what comes in between those moments. Still, there’s an unrelenting desire for those extremes at times. Perhaps because in the extremes we might figure out what is best understood about the shades in between. Philosophical? Perhaps. But, if your week were encased into a list of notable reads, what items would top that list? Continue reading →

  • Simply Perspective

    Using perspective of the future to communicate a simply, accessible present Living in a space where there’s some freedom towards experimentation and its resulting analysis often leads to incredibly simple insights. However, getting to that point is not so much a matter of iteration, or even research, sometimes, it is a matter of just having a different perspective than others who might be able to utilize those fruits in a more applicable manner. Continue reading →

  • Notable Reads for 15 Feb

    Resonance… That word spoke to what kept coming back towards this week. Not simply because resonance is both noun and past-action verb, but because there’s something about the way some pieces of work have rippled across the ether which seems to invite something more to the cannon than what’s been given at the surface. “…”Resonance—there is no wisdom without it,” Birkerts writes. “Resonance is a natural phenomenon, the shadow of import alongside the body of fact, and it cannot flourish except in deep time. Continue reading →

  • Reviewing Concepts

    Taking some time today to review a few past concepts. The ideation that led to these (and a few others) could use some refreshing. IoT Diagnostics Library Card Wallet PhD Search Notebook IxD App And at the same time, looking back at these causes a flurry of questions about the greater role contemplation plays in the space between the idea and the work. Continue reading →

  • Human Factors of Efficiency

    Perspectives of humane factors for defining efficiency Long before Avanceé was a clear concept, work was a series of support and design efforts looking at problems spaces from a perspective beyond the stated problem. Solutions invented had the effect of snowballing towards more. Some of those efforts kept going long after invention and implementation. Such was the expanse of a past effort that only recently is being retired. I’ve evolved in these responsibilities towards documenting and creating paperless forms with associated workflows to trim the administrative times allotted towards some member-facing and internal quality behaviors. Continue reading →

  • Notable Reads for 8 Feb 🔗

    Pattens can provoke actions. The provocation can seem as if it is elongating friction, or pointing to a diminishing influence of another mindset. The provocation can also alert to a shift which shouldn’t happen. Wrapping one’s head around all of this isn’t all that difficult unless you rely on the signals telling you what the patterns are doing. Signals follow the patters, they aren’t the patterns. What are the patterns? Well, this week’s collection of notable reads probably does well to highlight a few: Continue reading →

  • Tuning the CIO

    Tuning aspects of the CIO position into temporary, effective leadership Looking back at a recent project, part of the analysis of the work came in the form of looking at what Avanceé has accomplish to date. In some respects, the strategy and organizational work can be boiled down to the activities of an information office. CIO definition via Wikipedia: “The Chief Information Officer of an organization is responsible for a number of roles. Continue reading →

  • Notable Reads for 1 Feb 🔗

    Throughly enjoy those moments where there’s a cross-pollination of experiences and talents. There’s something about getting wind of a perspective outside of your focus which elevates the nuances you might not have considered before. And even more, when those nuances point to life and market opportunities otherwise hidden because of the sustained focus your endeavor might bring. Now, doing something with that cross-pollination — like creating new markets, or improving your own — this is the #futureofwork bit many talk about. Continue reading →

  • Concept: IoT Diagnostic App

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  • Simplicity Then Forward

    Staring with simplifying as identifying how forward In the past weeks, Avanceé has had conversations with companies having trouble identifying how to take their next steps. This isn’t an unfamiliar track when prospects of growth are more certain, or market forces push companies to pay attention to disruptive behaviors which ripple into their context. Still, identifying what to do, versus just knowing something has to be done is the challenge. For those who had reached out to Avanceé, the onus was simple: ingest as much as possible about the stressors, and then listen for what isn’t being taken in. Continue reading →