Maru
Process Engineering · Service Design · Systems Thinking

Maru
Ririnui

Service Design Process Engineering Systems Thinking Visual Communication UX Design Knowledge Design

Twenty years making complex work legible — to the people who need to act on it, approve it, and deliver it. The methodology is in the work. Some of it is available to take away and use.

Available for contracts · NZ & Remote
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Selected Work

Work that earns its place in the room

The case studies show the work. The methodology section shows how I think. Together they make the same argument — that rigorous practice, made visual, produces better outcomes than intuition alone.

Featured Knowledge Design 01
The BA Prompt Pack

A practical AI-powered guide for people who have been handed business analysis work with no formal training. Twelve artefacts, six project phases, and 40+ ready-to-use prompts — sequenced in the order a real project unfolds.

Business Analysis AI Prompting Knowledge Architecture Word Document Visual Design
Featured Process Engineering 02
EDB End-to-End
Process Mapping

Every major business process across an electricity distribution business — HR, Finance, Operations, and Service Management — mapped, interlinked, timed, and costed in LINQ to produce four system investment business cases with quantified current vs future state comparisons.

5 Business Domains 30+ Processes LINQ Cost Analysis 4 Business Cases Cross-Domain Mapping
Business Domains — Interlinked
Human Resources 6 processes
Finance & Payroll 3 processes
Operations & Works Mgmt 11 processes
Service Management 7 processes
+ LINQ Cost Analysis · 4 Business Cases
Methodology Visual Communication 03
Five Phase Maps —
the methodology made visual

Every BA engagement follows the same underlying logic. These five zoomed maps show how that logic unfolds — each phase with its own artefacts, its own failure modes, its own emotional arc, and its own centrepiece diagram. Free to explore. Built to be useful.

5 Phases · 12 Chapters Phase-specific design Confidence curves Practitioner traps
Five phases — five distinct aesthetics
① ClarifyThe interrogation loop
② Understand PeoplePower / interest grid
③ Define & AnalyseBidirectional Ch.05↔06
④ Make the CaseBusiness case anatomy
⑤ DeliverFive-chapter connection web
More work
Methodology

Every engagement follows the same underlying logic — understand the problem before designing the solution, map the people before writing the requirements, build the evidence before making the case. These phase maps show how that logic actually unfolds. They are free to explore. They are also the foundation of the BA Prompt Pack.

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.

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

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.

Electricity Distribution Sector
Deep experience in works management, asset management systems (Maximo), and the regulatory and operational context of NZ electricity networks.
Media & Broadcasting
Work with Radio New Zealand including The Wireless digital platform, sports coverage, and responsive web design — bringing editorial instinct to digital products.
Visual Communication
Using diagrams, illustrated guides, and structured documents to make complex ideas navigable — for executives, operators, and people new to a domain.
AI-Assisted Knowledge Design
Developing practical AI tools and guides — like the BA Prompt Pack — that give people without specialist training a structured way to do specialist work.
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Let's make something
worth seeing

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. Currently available for process engineering, service design, and systems thinking contracts in NZ and remotely.