Maru Ririnui

Twenty years making complex work legible to the people who need to act on it, approve it, and build it. Process engineering, service design, systems thinking, and AI tooling across government, utilities, agri-tech, and retail media.

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About

An insatiable
appetite for understanding

I was once described as having an insatiable appetite for knowledge. That might be taking it a bit far — but I have always enjoyed the opportunity to deep-dive into a subject until something genuinely useful surfaces.

My work sits at the intersection of how organisations operate, how information flows, and how people make sense of complexity. I work across process engineering, service design, systems thinking, and visual communication — often on the same project.

The challenge is always to come out with observations and insights — and then to articulate those in meaningful ways that inform decisions.

Deep Domain Experience
  • Electricity distribution and generation — works management, asset systems (Maximo), and the regulatory context of NZ electricity networks
  • Government regulatory tools — Food Act, Financial Markets Conduct Act, building energy ratings — translating policy into usable systems
  • Agri-tech product design — hardware UX for a global product line, tested in the field under real farm conditions
  • Retail media platforms — Technical Lead BA on a national Salesforce/Advendio/SAP deployment
  • AI-assisted practice — practical LLM application to BA problems: logic reconstruction, agent design, proof-of-concept development

Also building Demystifying Business Analysis - a practitioner guide and tool suite - and Movie Quote University, an essay series exploring philosophy and economics through film dialogue.

Get in touch

Let's make something
worth seeing

Currently available for Senior BA and Technical BA contracts. If you have a complex problem that needs to be made legible - to a team, a leadership group, or the people doing the work - I'd like to hear about it.

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