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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  • The Transition of Change

    Caught in that time period right between the cold of winter that remains on your memory until the rest of the year, and the spring which brings the blossoming and rains of a different kind. Such a period often has us instinctively ask and push for change. What we think change is going to produce isn’t often what happens. There are several elements at stake, most of which are not predictable by any other measure other than we put the work in and now we expect a result. Continue reading →

  • Links for 2 March

    Another week in the books and its been a pretty packed one. Here are the links which have come across the screens & eyes as most interesting: Alogrithms of Oppression via MIT Technology Review Engaging Absence by Thomas Padilla Augmented Reality: Drawing Instructor Concept What Might the Amazon, Berkshire, and JP Morgan Health Care Joint Venture Actually Do? Via 25iq We are doing better with getting outside of some of normal reading patterns, but that’s not good enough. Continue reading →

  • Links for 23 Feb

    I think an earlier thought about being intuitive on purpose might be a truer characterization of Avanceé than many other turns of phrase so far. And yet, even that thought didn’t come out of nowhere - it was generated through a series of work, digesting thoughts from elsewhere, and the resulting actions from them. Wonder what the resulting acts for these links will be: Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs via MIT Technology Review Stop Sayng Smart Cities via The Atlantic An AI That Reads Privacy Policies So That You Don’t Have to via Wired Everything Easy Is Hard Again And finishing with a great quote from Peter Scholtes found on Twitter Continue reading →

  • Reflections Forward

    Pausing from developing a prototype to think and ruminate a bit about the point of the actions we do forward. Not so much there’s a change happening with Avanceé - only that it makes sense to continue to look at goals and actions and then refine or reset where necessary. Some years ago, we were present for a smart cities conference in The Hague (Netherlands). There, Avanceé’s founder gave a keynote titled “Respond. Continue reading →

  • Links for 16 Feb

    There’s a feeling of awe and accomplishment each week publishing the links of interest. Not simply because it offers a time to look backwards, but as a whole, it paints a picture of the types of content needed to continually fuel the genesis of new ideas, approaches, and products. This week’s collection adds nicely to such a narrative. The Workplaces of the Future Will Be More Human, Not Less via Medium Learning to Prosper in A Factory Town via MIT Technology Review Dyson’s Audacious Attempt to Shake Up Car Industry via Financial Times And then a few thoughts from our gallery this week: Continue reading →

  • Design Is More than What You See

    Feels weird to say this, but there seems to be something of a blind spot when it comes to the design industry. A vast majority of the conversation centers around what’s seen. And therefore technology and tools aren’t far behind. We talk about layers, button states, and even layout placements in terms of what’s seen. Yet, little to no attention is paid to the other senses. We notice that little-to-no attention when we look at devices like the Apple Watch. Continue reading →

  • Links for 9 Feb

    Welcome to Friday, and despite the higher-than usual amount of work, there’s still plenty of good writing which has happened to challenge and break-the-box of several perspectives. Here’s our links of the week: Teachers on Strike: Do We Still Need Them? Via SogetiLabs Automatiion is going to hit workers in three waves, and the first one is already here - Technology Review The House that Spied on Me What is Ambient Computing via Medium Do you have items worth featuring on our weekly links list, share to us via Twitter (@AvanceeAgency). Continue reading →

  • Looking Beyond the Horizon

    Generally, we look towards some unidentifable place beyond the horizon to set a goal. Some call it “moonshot” and others call it just reaching beyond the horizon. This isn’t risky. In fact its more or less the safe thing to do for any team or organization. The challenge therefore is easier to take on because there’s a sense of inevitability to the actions that will happen. If you take the small steps, then what comes next is as normal as the sun going up. Continue reading →

  • Links for 2 Feb

    If last week was a case of trying to pick the best from a large stack, this week is more like trying to find the best items where there’s been more or less an echo chamber in familiar and unfamiliar spaces. Nevertheless, we push forward: Kant Against Your Oculus Rift Interface Writing: Code for Humans The Napkin Disrupted: Meet Ink to Code, a Microsoft Garage Project Continue reading →

  • Misplaced Perceptions of User Experience

    There are many organizations, upon hearing the term “user experience” land on the perception of “finally getting a pleasing product in front of people.” And while the hope is indeed a correct one, the perception of the user experience professional to handle (and be adept) at everything from application development, to marketing, to organizational strategy, to project/product management is one where expectations end up having many fall short of those perceptions - UX eventually finding itself in the bucket of “things we wish we did well but don’t have the time/budget for. Continue reading →