The Royal Mint’s Group Technology Director shares how they transformed from a legacy organization into a digitally sophisticated business. Through strategic diversification and investment in Optimisely’s platform, they’ve enhanced customer experience, boosted conversions, and brought personalization to a 1,100-year-old brand.
- Diversified into 6 businesses including bullion, commemorative coins, and sustainable jewelry
- Optimisely enabled a unified commerce platform, experimentation, and personalization
- ODP and CMS 12 upgrades are central to future digital growth
- Optimisely helped handle major spikes (e.g. King’s coronation: 1.4M pageviews, 200 payments/min)
- 50% increase in subscriptions and 20% higher conversion post-launch thanks to experimentation
- Cross-functional agile teams and stakeholder education were key to success
- Advice: implement vertically, go deep on fewer things, build internal Optimisely expertise