Wood Mackenzie

Analysing the planet's natural resources

Stats

14,000+
Reports for sale
11
Systems integrated

The Challenge

Wood Mackenzie is a leading research a consultancy business for the global natural resources sector. They have an internationally recognised and trusted brand that is known for its quality, integrity, accuracy and the expertise of their people.

Storm ID were appointed as a digital delivery partner to work with a design agency and with internal teams to deliver a fresh, compelling customer experience for their global corporate and e-commerce website.

The Objectives

  • Communicate the brand and value proposition

    Showcase the insight and expertise of Wood Mackenzie as an analytics body across multiple industries

  • Generate sales leads and grow e-commerce revenue

    Provide a streamlined sales funnel to increase the effectiveness of the site in generating sales leads and improve the e-commerce provisions to increase revenue in line with business objectives

  • Attract talent

    Support careers and general recruitment efforts across the organisation

  • Establish a unified digital approach

    Develop new digital infrastructure to provide a solid foundation for the future
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The Insight

Key to the successful and timely delivery was establishing a single project team consisting of people from Storm ID and Wood Mackenzie’s technical and marketing divisions. This team was able to stay focused on the project objectives using a distributed agile development approach.

The project team mapped dependencies on internal systems and defined a realistic project delivery plan that supported agile delivery at pace of the site while also allowing for upgrade to internal systems.

Key Features

Recognising a global audience

Localisation of content including multi-language capability to meet diverse user needs

Range of payment options and support of global currencies

A new way of working

Executing a distributed agile development approach

The Process

Discovery

  • Understand user needs and collaboratively defining a new content model with marketing team
  • Definition and iteration of information architecture, taxonomy, content types, micro formats and target user journeys
  • Technical analysis of system dependencies and definition of test plan

Alpha

  • High fidelity HTML prototype illustrating 12 core user journeys across the site to demonstrate the target-user experience, content model and key functionality
  • Testing of the Alpha site with a representative set of external users

Beta

  • Integration of the target-user experience and content into the digital platform
  • Technical development work to integrate with 11 other systems
  • Implementation of multi-language marketing campaign functionality
  • Testing of the Beta site with end users

Live

  • Implementation of user feedback recommendations
  • Executing quality assurance via an SEO checklist to maintain current search result rankings
  • Implementation of analytics framework to measure site performance against KPIs
  • Functional, load and security testing of the target platform against agreed standards
  • Author training and set up for content governance procedures

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