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 11 May

    Would be the easy excuse to say that the usual posting scheme was disrupted because of the work on deck, but that’s not exactly the case. There was a bit of procrastination involved, which led to the travel/work on deck, which led to a “ah let’s just pick back up on Friday” bit. It might be ok to resume things as they were. After all, if you do great work, you’ll have great stories to tell and customers will experience their best. Continue reading →

  • Links for 4 May

    Its about that time again… really need to think about better ways to introduce the week’s links of interest, reflection, and reorientation. In any case, one could imagine thoughts are clearer when the road to-be-traveled has both imagination and focus as pistons within its engine. Here’s hoping these links provide some of spark-user for you. The First Principles of Product Management You Need to Appreciate Beyoncé’s Attention to Detail via Medium The Spy Who Came Home via The New Yorker I Spent A Weekend With Cyborgs, and Now I Have an RFID Implant I Have No Idea What To Do With Heads-Up: The Oral History of Iron Man’s Original HUD The No-Collar Workforce Blaccture And from us: Continue reading →

  • Living in A Future Present

    The reflection starts in using augmented memories. What was an an enjoyable time of food, drinks, and dancing is now nothing more than a hyperlink and several siloed conversations to be pulled upon until it fades from the collective consciousness, or until it’s made more permanent thru the positive or negative celebrity of another trope. This is life in this augmented age. When looking at the technologies in use, we have a nearly-theological viewpoint of them: either we use them becuase they enable us to embrace a view of ourselves we otherwise couldn’t, or we don’t use them because to do so would portend some kind of denial of agency. Continue reading →

  • Links for 27 April

    Another week in the books and the threads are aplenty. And maybe that’s just a sign of spring — lots of items coming to the surface after so many months of content finding its way against the gravity of other discussions. Smartphones Are Bad for Some Teens, Not All via Nature Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids’ Edition via The Verge A Big Phone via Matt Gemmell AR/VR Design Process by Morgan Fritz Hit post and forgot to put the other goodies on this week’s thread Continue reading →

  • Move Fast and Shape Things

    The other week, we looked back as to what’s been published so far, and there has really been a decent amount of content. There’s certainly a number of pieces where we are feeling our way to what kind of content is best for this platform. And at the same time, the linking of items creates avenues for attention perhaps not all that different from the other waves of conversation happening. There might be better ways to canvas the space that design and process begets. Continue reading →

  • Identity and Instinctive Travels

    What happens to fall inside or outside of the work to be done might be considered a distraction. As part of building a discipline of activity to define Avanceé and its market value, there’s is a bit of attention given at this stage to following instinct, not just process. Process is not pushed aside, but it is empowered by following the shades of what isn’t so easily defined. A conversation about workspaces and cadence turns into a conversation on the nature of names, etymologies, and ancestry. Continue reading →

  • Twitter Posting Gone Awry

    Now that’s interesting. For some reason, posting to Twitter stopped happening a few days ago. It looks like cross-posting wasn’t turned on, but don’t remember turning it on as items were hitting Twitter auto-magically… 🤔 For items to hit both the @microblog timeline and Twitter is somewhat necessary (for now). Will need to investigate this before next week’s thoughts hit the stream. Continue reading →

  • Links for 20 April

    Back again with a few links which have made something of influence here and there throughout the week. At the same time we share them, there’s also a shifting happening a bit behind the scenes — the links do have to lead somewhere you know. The Future of Well-Being in a Tech-Saturated World by Pew Research Discipling Play: Digital Youth Culture as Capital at School via The University of Chicago Press Journals How the Walkman Made Us Who We Are and Why We Need to Redesign Desires Beyond Tech Algorithmic Impact Assessments via AI Now Institute The Facebook Trials: It’s Not “Our” Data via Marginal Revolution There were a number of items pushed here this week from us; one part of that starting tweets here, another part in keeping the long-form writing as a focus of what’s put forward. Continue reading →

  • Current vs Currents

    Composing this as the start of yet another Excel class is about to begin. The framing is simple — to get a company of people who do various transformations and reporting with data to have the same floor — yet the feeling is not one where there has been much movement. An outsider teaching others how to use their tooling to do some aspect of their work feels like a bit of greaseing the wheel for a train which will never be moved forward. Continue reading →

  • Algorithmic Impact Assessment Framework

    Interesting Algorithmic Impact Assessments via AI Now Institute - via Benedict Evans’s Weekly Newsletter The Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) framework proposed in this report is designed to support affected communities and stakeholders as they seek to assess the claims made about these systems, and to determine where – or if – their use is acceptable. Continue reading →