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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  • NACTO Guidelines

    Reading - there’s a good bit of insight towards cycling & public transport I’d not seen before (had convos however). Frictionless site design too. National Association of City Transportation Officials Urban Bikeway Design Guide Continue reading →

  • Wavelength

    Totally late on this (as usual), but it looks like there’s a podcast client created by Micro.Blog’s inventor Wavelength Been thinking about doing a podcast alongside Avanceé (was looking at Anchor.fm) but this would be better for too many reasons. Not sure yet, but… Continue reading →

  • Thought

    Spent the week developing a Twitter/Medium strategy for a group. Sketching the blueprint was good for this moment; but the blueprint is only 25% of the journey. Getting folks to append/change their activities is the scripting of what’s next. Continue reading →

  • Links for 13 April

    Sometimes, milestones and reflections are more for yourself than for others. But, its certainly interesting when we hear about other’s moments of reflection and contemplation and it creates the impetus to engage in similar moments for ourselves. Its on this framing this week’s links land. Cameroonian Artist and Japanese Designer Collaboration for Stunning Kimono Line Job Description by Luke Wroblewski’s Twitter How Do We Build 21st Century Business Skills Increasing An Organization’s UX Design Maturity: Our Not So Secret Sauce Our contribution to this week’s learnings: Continue reading →

  • Cutting New Roads

    Somewhere in the weeds, or maybe beyond the bushes with the hard bristles and leaves, is that thing you and your team have been looking for. This isn’t a prophecy saying that you are looking; nor is it an inevitability you will be there when the rest of your team finds it. This is just an acknowledgement that the space between current state and ideal state isn’t exactly a road which has been paved before. Continue reading →

  • 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 →