Neil Botha

Experience

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  20twenty

  Mar 2002 - Dec 2005

  New Product Development
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  Bletchley Park

  Feb 2006 - Feb 2010

  Strategist
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  The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town

  Mar 2010 - May 2011

  Senior Strategist
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  N Inc

  May 2011 - Mar 2014

  Business Strategy Specialist
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  Lumen

  Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

  Strategy Director

  Lumen is a digital consultancy focused on digital transformation. We help our clients create their future by developing the leadership and digital capabilities required to create new behaviours, evolve culture and harness the full potential of digital to attain business outcomes.

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  Q-Division

  Jan 2016 - now

  Founder and strategy and innovation partner

  Q Division, named after the famous R&D lab in the Bond movies, builds leading digital products and ventures. Our stand-out projects so far: > Incubated and developing a one billion Rand digital venture for Comair> A healthcare app to help patients with diabetes and HIV, improve the management of their chronic condition, with the associated benefits for the doctor, patient, and medical aid ecosystem > An adaptive learning financial literacy game, emulating real-world financial decisions in a highly engaging gameplay > Digital transformation project for Namibian Breweries > Natural language processing legal research tool to democratise and improve the quality of legal research to formulate better arguments > Improving the financial wellness of SA's entry market through innovative digital products Show less

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  Growth Lab ZA

  Apr 2019 - now

  Founder and strategy director

  Growth Lab is a product and venture design studio made up of inventors, investors and corporate partners. The intention of harnessing Africa’s abundant growth opportunities is at the core of everything we do. How we work:The perspectives of people power our process for finding the invaluable insights that lead to inventive and targeted solutions. From skills transfer to startup incubation, we can help you reduce risk and avoid over investment, while increasing your odds of owning the next breakthrough opportunity.What we offer:1. Breakthrough GrowthWe transfer and complement human centred design assets and skills to build your team’s empathetic capacity, allowing your business to evolve ahead of the market and give your customers what they really need.Definition: Human centred design is an inventive approach to problem solving, starting with empathy and ending in high impact, targeted solutions. Our agile service offering can be adapted to suit specific business needs. From one day design thinking workshops, to innovation sprints that starts with an idea and ends in a validated solution.2. Inclusive GrowthMake the most of your enterprise and supplier development (ESD) funds. We help you to identify and incubate strategic opportunities and talent with high growth and employment potential. Investing with intelligence, derived from empathetic insights, will ensure you get the maximum value for your spend. Show less