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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Featured Concepts include:

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  • Educating Shaping Working

    Though the roster took up to 12 students, there were only a half-dozen registered for the class. However, only one showed, and now, 15 minutes after the class was supposed to start, a decision needed to be made: cancel the class, or run another 1-on-1. The student decided to do the 1-on-1, they needed the lessons for the upcoming quarterly reports. Anything to understand how this application worked better would help at this point, they were overwhelmed. Continue reading →

  • Links for 25 May

    Happy GDPR Day! Ok, maybe that’s not the best way to open the week’s link share. Yet, there’s something to be said about the sites who don’t have much in the way of the notices about privacy policies and data governance which drive more about the consumer internet than much else. Its good to have a few sites where sharing info out, doesn’t mean you are sharing info into an abyss of little control. Continue reading →

  • Concept: SmartTrip Transit App for Apple Watch

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  • The Features Trap

    Asking for features but wanting better methods For a number of years, SharePoint had been a part of the toolkit for project teams. Our experience in working with these teams has given a few lessons towards what is understood about features, and what isn’t undertood about behaviors. And yet, across more than a decade, there seems to have been little movement towards reconciling these. Features — as it relates to what teams understand about their tools — can very much be a trap instead of a help. Continue reading →

  • Links for 18 May

    The backend of Spring has hit a number of places and industries differently. Where some areas are getting so much rain that what looked refreshing is now flooding, other places are finding themselves parched, looking fot a relief. What does that have to do with the links for the week? Maybe nothing. Then again, the amount of water one needs to make it to the next season does depend on where you are in this one. Continue reading →

  • From Mundane to Tactile

    A long day where you move about within about a 25ft radius yet still travel across continents, trade information, and engage various groups of people who use information technology to do mundane and wonderful things. This has been a pretty consistent piece of the story which has led to Avanceé and seems like an area most ripe for thinking a bit outside of the box. On the same day of these, Microsoft announces its Surface Hub 2 another gesture towards the collaborative whiteboard which connects to people in open spaces, and uses a combination of touch, gesture, and camera-based input schemes for interfacing with content. Continue reading →

  • 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 →