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  2. Process Research and Business Analysis
  3. Innovation Coaching (incl. Fractional Leadership)

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  • Orientation Assets for 23 Oct 26 🔗

    The past few weeks have seen something of a re-focusing here. And these weekly shares are probably the most visible. There’s been some “recasting” in the framing of articles too. A few weeks ago was two pieces: Capability Architecture and Orientation rchitecture. This week have been two more: Orientation, Not Information and Designing for Return. All of these express what Avanceé has been and what I hope it continues to be. Continue reading →

  • Designing for Return

    I’ve been thinking about recovery differently. Usually, when we talk about recovery in technology, we mean restoring a system. Restart the device. Restore the data. Reconnect the service. Get everything working again. But what about the person? I’ve been experimenting with a small system that persists just enough context to help me answer a simple question when I return: Where was I? That question has turned out to be more interesting than I expected. Continue reading →

  • Orientation, Not Information

    We have gotten remarkably good at putting information within reach. Search it. Ask for it. Summarize it. Capture it. Retrieve it later. I’ve been experimenting with another problem: What helps us know where we are? While working with a small heads-up display, it would have been easy to keep adding information. More notes. More tasks. More context. More things worth remembering. Instead, the interesting work has been deciding what not to show. Continue reading →

  • Orientation Assets for 16 Oct 26 🔗

    Finding there’s a lot of neat and new things on deck. There’s acceleration happening with so many projects and communities, and at the same time things can only go so fast. Humane bandwidth is finite. Our systems might be faster but they aren’t going to all be done. Continue reading →

  • Orientation Assets for 9 Oct 26 🔗

    There’s really been a solid run of news bits this week, along with some fun success with the Brilliant Labs Halo and a few other projects. For some more flavor, am going to have to ditch the pumpkin theme of the season for something a bit less earthy, and all together more interesting. Edit: second week of new title, was bound to mess up somewhere. That’s corrected now. Continue reading →

  • Orientation Architecture

    I’ve been thinking about orientation architecture as a companion to capability architecture, though I’m less interested in making them into a neat framework than I am in seeing where each one leads. The problem is that capability alone isn’t enough. We can become remarkably capable of doing things while becoming less certain about what we should be doing, why we’re doing it, or what has changed around us. More information doesn’t necessarily help. Continue reading →

  • Capability Architecture

    I’ve been using the phrase capability architecture for a while now, and I’m increasingly convinced it describes something more useful than another name for consulting. Most organizations are pretty good at describing what they have. Teams. Processes. Technology. Skills. Systems. Strategies. What seems harder is recognizing what those things might make possible when they actually work together. That’s the space I’m interested in. Capability architecture starts with a different question than “What system do we need? Continue reading →

  • Orientation Assets for 2 Oct 26 🔗

    I’ve been calling these weekly collections Avanceé Reads since this site’s inception. And while that says what it is, it didn’t quite point to “why” it matters for a venture like Avanceé. So, I’m changing that name to Orientation Assets. The change is small, but the distinction matters. I don’t share these links simply because I found them interesting. More often, something in them has helped me see a changing situation differently: a new technology, an emerging pattern, an unfamiliar way of organizing work, a question that seems worth sitting with. Continue reading →

  • Building a Recovery Tool for the Brilliant Labs Halo Glasses

    )I’ve written a bit about the Brilliant Labs Halo, and wanted to give a bit of light as to how I’m coming into things. Am using a preproduction iteration of the Halo hardware. And with this, I do not have access to any versions of Noa which work along with it. I’ve essentially have had to work from what I can understand from previous experience, the Halo SDK, and pure luck. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 25 Sept 26 🔗

    Fragrance… that’s what many of the week’s activities more or less point to. I use “more or less” a lot when writing. When LLMs pick that up, will I need to find another go-to phrase? Or, will that be a distinct-enough thing to keep me slightly identifiable 🤔💭 Continue reading →