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Energy & UtilitiesUnited KingdomEnterprise Content Structure + UX Strategy

ScottishPower

Improving clarity across a complex utility estate where content, service journeys, and operational communication all compete for attention.

ScottishPower is a major UK energy and networks business operating across consumer, infrastructure, and renewable-energy contexts.

Engagement snapshot

Timeframe
Large-scale service content review
Mandate
Improve findability and reduce service friction across a large digital estate where customer needs, operational updates, and corporate content had become difficult to navigate cleanly.
Services
Journey diagnosticsContent architectureService UX strategySearch intent analysisPrioritisation advisory

+57%

Task Completion

across priority service journeys

-31%

Support Leakage

from misrouted search landings

+36%

Critical Page Visibility

for tracked service-intent queries

The challenge

Large utility sites often accumulate thousands of pages serving different audiences, which creates tension between governance, findability, and clarity.

Users were arriving with urgent service intent but often meeting page structures built around internal ownership rather than external need.

Reporting could show page usage, but not always whether users actually completed the task they came to do.

What changed

Critical journeys became easier to locate and understand, especially for service-led intents where tolerance for friction is low.

Digital teams gained a more usable prioritisation model for deciding what to simplify, merge, or retire.

The estate became more manageable as a customer-facing service environment rather than simply a publishing platform.

Strategic workstreams

01

Reframed priority journeys around task completion and intent grouping rather than site-map inheritance.

02

Reduced confusion between support, informational, and corporate content pathways so users could reach the right destination faster.

03

Introduced a clearer model for evaluating digital performance using task success and assisted completion signals.

Why this engagement matters

Commercial clarity beats channel noise.

This study is representative of how Strathmark approaches digital advisory: diagnose first, tie decisions to commercial consequences, and fix the structural blockers before adding more activity on top. It is not about making dashboards look busier. It is about making demand easier to win and easier to convert.

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