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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 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 →

  • 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 →