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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Featured Concepts include:

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  • Concept: Hiking Workout for Apple Watch

    Concept: Hiking Workout for Apple Watch (before it was annoucned for watchOS 5) Continue reading →

  • Experience Last

    The project is well-past the kickoff, and it feels as if there are no other successes to be pulled. The pace of development seems to have slowed. The stakeholders are getting ancy. What seemed like the right solution months ago now seems so far from the truth of how they will use it. And yet, the budget says it must persist. There are calls to trim the team and go “lean” in both focus and resources. Continue reading →

  • Links for 1 June

    Closing another week and there are just enough hours to share a few influential links passed this week: A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home via Inc Artificial Intelligence and Education: Moving Beyond the Hype Invisible Asymptotes via Eugene Wei A few from us: Concept: Tymbals Risk Assessment Tool Educating Shaping Working Continue reading →

  • Concept: Tymbals Risk Assessment Tool

    Concept: Tymbals Risk Assessment Tool; made with Paper by FiftyThree Continue reading →

  • Educating Shaping Working

    Though the roster took up to 12 students, there were only a half-dozen registered for the class. However, only one showed, and now, 15 minutes after the class was supposed to start, a decision needed to be made: cancel the class, or run another 1-on-1. The student decided to do the 1-on-1, they needed the lessons for the upcoming quarterly reports. Anything to understand how this application worked better would help at this point, they were overwhelmed. Continue reading →

  • Links for 25 May

    Happy GDPR Day! Ok, maybe that’s not the best way to open the week’s link share. Yet, there’s something to be said about the sites who don’t have much in the way of the notices about privacy policies and data governance which drive more about the consumer internet than much else. Its good to have a few sites where sharing info out, doesn’t mean you are sharing info into an abyss of little control. Continue reading →

  • Concept: SmartTrip Transit App for Apple Watch

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  • The Features Trap

    Asking for features but wanting better methods For a number of years, SharePoint had been a part of the toolkit for project teams. Our experience in working with these teams has given a few lessons towards what is understood about features, and what isn’t undertood about behaviors. And yet, across more than a decade, there seems to have been little movement towards reconciling these. Features — as it relates to what teams understand about their tools — can very much be a trap instead of a help. Continue reading →

  • Links for 18 May

    The backend of Spring has hit a number of places and industries differently. Where some areas are getting so much rain that what looked refreshing is now flooding, other places are finding themselves parched, looking fot a relief. What does that have to do with the links for the week? Maybe nothing. Then again, the amount of water one needs to make it to the next season does depend on where you are in this one. Continue reading →

  • From Mundane to Tactile

    A long day where you move about within about a 25ft radius yet still travel across continents, trade information, and engage various groups of people who use information technology to do mundane and wonderful things. This has been a pretty consistent piece of the story which has led to Avanceé and seems like an area most ripe for thinking a bit outside of the box. On the same day of these, Microsoft announces its Surface Hub 2 another gesture towards the collaborative whiteboard which connects to people in open spaces, and uses a combination of touch, gesture, and camera-based input schemes for interfacing with content. Continue reading →