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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  • Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt4

    Final installment of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 View Part 2 View Part 3 Humanism I’ve mentioned the term agency a few times in this talk, and that’s more or less the core of what digital humanism design means. How are we using these tools in order to better understand what we do right and wrong? Some of this will come from putting information together with others — think along the lines of “wisdom of the crowds” or “communities dominate brands. Continue reading →

  • Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt3

    Continuing a sharing of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 View Part 2 Filters, Awareness, Noise, & Poise There’s that “design” word again. You see, this constellation of devices is simply the colors on a palette, tossed against the canvas of my life, aiming to make a decent picture of what life I’ve been living. Thing is, all of this connectivity, all of these services and their implications, these are merely a negotiation of noise and poise. Continue reading →

  • Concept: SmartTrip for Apple Watch

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  • Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt2

    Continuing a sharing of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 of the notes if this is your first exposure to this series. Constellation of Devices I could be called a modern-day cyborg. Starting with the prescription glasses and going down to the cadaver’s ACL which is nailed into my knee, I have been augmented in a few means. And this isn’t even to mention the advanced sugars, intentionally and unintentionally modified fruits and vegetables making up my diet. Continue reading →

  • Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt1

    Am going to spend a few posts sharing the thoughts and transcript/speaker notes which went into our Brigadoon Annapolis talk (Digital Humanism). Besides being a means to see how the lecture was created, it also enables some other eyes into what has been gestating within this Avanceé cocoon. Comment via Twitter DM: That’s kind of it… to some degree (and maybe its also in what I read & tweeted about tonight), I think that what I’m aiming for is an activation of what’s in us to do what we are building tools, services, behaviors… culture(s) to do. Continue reading →

  • Week’s Perspective

    Erasing the whiteboard and readying for another week of challenges, insights, and new perspectives to open. Sometimes the photograph of what’s to come starts as an artist’s dream Continue reading →

  • Links for 28 Sept

    Searching, scratching, and using beats on 808s to do something like matching. Each week the links here are a mix and remix of what has made for a piece of insight. From these, Avanceé aims to create a means for others to see forward. Sometimes that’s automating work processes, other times that’s designing systems and noting the potential (and unintentional) interactions. Remixing jazz made for rock, pop, hiphop, and more. Chances are that these links will provoke you to create something new also. Continue reading →

  • Your Ring Does What?

    One of the ways in which Avanceé finds its bearings within conversations happens around the constellation of devices on the person. For example, at The Brigadoon Annapolis it was Snap’s Spectacles which took the lion’s share of attention. Though, it was the explaination of the other devices which gave grounding to what’s been happening. One of those items, the NFC Ring, is commonly referred to as “where the business card lies. Continue reading →

  • Brigadoon Annapolis via Kownacki

    ‪Enjoying a trip back to @the_brigadoon Annapolis via the pics taken by @bkownacki — so many of them capture the energy of the time there… especially shots during our lecture: expressive, engaging, and a hint of “learning about the future-present”‬ Continue reading →

  • Links for 21 Sept

    Throughly enjoyed sharing a bit about “digital humanism” at Annapolis Brigadoon over the past days. Yet, for as much as there was an expression of Avanceé (main points: livability as productivity and boundaries established around understanding circadian rhythms), the conversations when went well beyond and through our presentation made the time all that more enjoyable. There’s a thread in all things, and maybe the best one yet being the conversations which enable us to learn just a little bit more about other’s place in the world, and perhaps refine how we see ourselves in the same. Continue reading →