About – Riaan Botha

Kia ora! Welcome to my website.

I'm a strategic Enterprise Designer who specialises in connecting business strategy with technology.

I work with stakeholders to understand their needs, spot capability gaps, and create technology roadmaps and solutions that deliver real business value.

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Whiteboard skills over 9000! :O

My background spans Enterprise Business Architecture, Service Design, User Experience Design, along with significant agency consulting experience, which helps me create practical solutions that work for both users and the business.

I've worked with stakeholders across Entertainment, Travel, Financial, Government, and Technology sectors to align what the business needs with clear technology direction. I take complex business problems and concepts and communicate them in easy to understand ways so everyone can get behind the plans and make informed decisions.

Skills

I can't ride a unicycle, but I'm pretty good at these things.

Architecture

Business capability modelling
Technology landscape mapping and health reporting
Architecture governance
Target state architecture development
Technology roadmaps
Capability-led planning
Stakeholder engagement and communication
Cross-functional collaboration and facilitation
Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
Product ownership and lifecycle management

Design

Service design and blueprinting
User experience (UX) research and design
Design thinking methodology and facilitation
Workshop design and facilitation
User journey mapping and persona development
Information Architecture
Prototyping and wireframing
User testing and validation
Design systems and standards

By creating partnerships with stakeholders and facilitating collaborative Design Thinking activities we can create shared views of desired business outcomes and co-design supporting business capabilities, change requirements, and roadmaps to help execute successful strategies.