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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  • Links for 6 April

    Another week in the books, and while it is after the holiday, there’s nothing slow about the pace of reading and contemplation which has made itself suitable this week. Here are a few items which have crossed the paths of Avanceé’s workspace this week: Non-Tech Businesses are Beginning to Use Artifical Intelligence at Scale via The Economist Deutsche Bank’s Marcus Schenck on the Future of Banking via Business Insider PropAI - Artifical Intelligence in Real Estate Google Workers Urge CEO to Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project via NY Times And a few from our desk: Continue reading →

  • Convo On Creating New Textiles

    trying something where original “tweets” happen here versus on Twitter first Spoke w/a woman the other day who takes scrap clothing and turns them into new materials, new textiles. She didn’t like the waste, and her artistic leanings took over. Interesting note from convo: how her craft was shaped by a New England culture/attitude but Appalachian craft & values. How she sees sustainable stuff is in a shape rarely heard/seen. What didn’t work out with textile folks in the region screams of disruption coming from places you didn’t see coming. Continue reading →

  • Paying Attention

    Yesterday, spent some time on an upcoming podcast and one of the questions asked was about what new technologies or perspectives are being paid attention to. These are great questions because they don’t just talk about someone’s ability to lead, but also their ability to bridge where they might be leading with where others might be now. One lens of this answer was derived from the recently finished Homo Deus. The popular and challenging reads of the day will usually offer a lens into some of the executive or dinner-time discussions. Continue reading →

  • Links for 30 March

    In the midst of a holy season for so many faith groups, its good to have points like these to reflect on items which put to death some perspectives, or give space to rise to new ones. Here are the links for this week: Work of Art via NewCo Shift Fast.Ai at MIT Technology Review Commoditisation of AI, digital forgery and the end of trust: how we can fix it Solid or Liquid? Continue reading →

  • Simple Image, Simple Focuses

    It has been almost four months since starting Avanceé and there’s always this tension that it can be refined a bit more, that there’s something a bit better about it which can be pulled forward so that it creates as much value as it is envisioned to. And then you see those who have done similar and how you aren’t racing anyone - nor are you yet anywhere near the destination… Continue reading →

  • Links for 26 March

    Whoops, got way too into work and life on Friday and missed links for last week; here’s whats been grabbing attention, that’s not exactly the same as what might has made news reports: Mockupdated Concept: The IKEA Manual of the Future via Fast Company Design Smartphone-by-Default Internet Users via Ofcom UK And then our long-form for last week: Opining the Value of Metics Do you have links which are interesting enough for being a part of the stew which makes Avanceé flow forward? Continue reading →

  • Opining on the Value of Metrics

    You can’t improve what you don’t measure In a recent conversation with an executive director of a youth-reaching program, we talked about developing applets (small apps) and process changes which enabled one mentor to spend less time working on the admin tasks of mentoring and more working towards the direct “jobs to be done” of seeing direct correlation between activity and outputs. The director’s face said more than any of the words that remained within that vein of the conversation. Continue reading →

  • Links for 16 March

    This has been a week of considering not just the validity of approach, but how work has to respond to methods and tools we might use to continue forward. The width and depth of such thinking has been shaped by this week’s links: Why B Corporations Matter Can Bots Help Us Deahl with Grief Twitter Convo: Teens using iMessage Groups feeling like Slack threads The Thoughts of a Spiderweb Continue reading →

  • Methods and Tools of Work

    Over the weekend, spent a bit of time diving into the work of service design during the Global Service Jam. There’s something pretty exciting about taking the expanse of what you know, adding a good bit of what you don’t, and mixing it with people you just met for a problem to be clearly defined in 48 hours. The activity within the Global Service Jam isn’t much different than most other work, its the intensity on figuring things out without the friction of tools, meetings, and even in-applicable research to get in the way. Continue reading →

  • Links for 9 March

    Another week in the books, and more or less some interesting covers unveiled throughout the links of note this week. Take a look at some of what caught our attention: Every Single Cognitive Bias in One Infographic One smart guy’s frank take on working in some of the major tech companies via Marginal Revolution The Complications of Growing Up Bionic via Medium The Japanese words for “space” could change your view of the world Continue reading →