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 20 July

    Sometimes, it doesn’t matter what exactly you might be trying to avert your attention from, there are some news and notes which just make their way into your viewing lanes. You can decide what to look at, what to hold onto, and what to discard. You can’t always decide the immediate value of what just took hold of your attention. This is the harder lesson of filters/boundaries. One in which this week’s set of links seems to shine the appropriate light towards: Continue reading →

  • Project Idea: Wellness Enabler

    Had an idea earlier this year about purchasing a health company (I Should buy A Digital Health Company); haven’t really moved from it, but have put some work into sculpting what exactly about a health company enables Avanceé’s vision… …it’s deeper than organic. Wellness as enabler 🤔 Continue reading →

  • Blockers and Filters

    In one of our recent projects, we are mapping workflows which are no longer being used due to organizational and staff changes. In doing so, we’ve been doing some light assessing of what the organization has been doing since those workflows and methods were compromised. What we find is what’s true at every company, people find a blocker to a way of working, and like water, they seep around the walls until there’s a better route found. Continue reading →

  • Links for 13 July

    Travel and sickness often makes for unusual insights. Then again, there are some questions we don’t ask when we are well because we are strong enough to be stubborn to ignore them. At least, this seems to be parts within the theme of this week’s links: Can Meditation Really Make the World A Better Place via Aeon Intel’s Toxic Culture via Monday Note Did Blogs Ruin the Web; or Did the Web Ruin Blogs via Kottke -Why Hasn’t Graphene Taken Over the World via The Verge - Video And one from us: Continue reading →

  • On Workflows

    Many years ago, the word/phrase to be found around the workplace was “workflow.” Between the many folks selling workflow solutions, large companies making initiatives on top of initiatives in order to improve/measure/etc. workflow, and the various technical languages which jumped the shark into being “workflow enablers” for those who needed a bit more agency, it was a another one of those fervor moments you could only just sit and wait it out. Continue reading →

  • Links for 6 July

    Independence is an agreement, but not an inevitable decision. At least, that’s how it feels when looking at the links for this week: Simple Self-Driving Shuttles Become First Robot Rides in Detroit via Bloomberg Ridehail Revolution: UCLA ITS Dissertation Examines Discrimination and Travel Patters for Lyft, Uber, and Taxis What Happens When A Computer Runs Your Life via Medium The Connectomes Revolution via Edge Framing Trust via Twitter thread And just one from us this week: Continue reading →

  • The Appendage Conundrum

    As we pulled up to the mall, Steve felt there was something he’d show me. Little did he know, I was going to use this context to show him what he didn’t understand about mobile. We walked into the mall and proceeded to stores he was familiar with. There were a few companies to which he wanted to check out due to the project we were working on. His mindset was that the TV screens were the important interface for this effort. Continue reading →

  • Links for 29 June

    The future should be described in more optimistic terms than perhaps scholars or the entertainment industry has put forth. Looking for those different tropes is a bit easier said than done. The way this week’s links are put forth, it will be more up to the reader to put together their ideal future, rather than live with the results of other’s methods of dictation. On to the links: A Peek Inside the Niantic Real World Vector Podcast No. Continue reading →

  • Concept: Podcast UI

    Concept: Podcast UI Continue reading →

  • Tools on Deck: Adobe Comp CC

    The tools used on Windows and macOS machines just aren’t usable in the same manner on Apple’s iOS devices. That has required some shifts, and has shaped some exposure to some tools in a different light than what they might have been initially marketed towards. Speaking specificity, Adobe Comp CC has become that tool. And yet, it largely goes unnoticed because this type of use is not what you do on a tablet. Continue reading →