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The image display to the left-hand side is a 640px x 360px image. 

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You can also add videos to the columns, you would just need to select a text/text row and insert the video via ‘inline video’.

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You may have also noticed that this column also has a ‘case study’ title row above it. This option is available for each row you create in the CMS.  

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You can add tables of any size to a full-width column, and certain sized tables (one or two columns depending on content) into a half-width column. 

Like you can currently, you will be able change each tables cell’s properties such as the colour of the text and the background colour it displays. 

As a reminder on how to add a table, it is in the rich-text editor field and has a grid icon. 

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Themes Nascent Emerging Mature
Data Sources

Largely reliant on suppliers to share commodity market and pricing data. Some syndicated data sources are used, which mostly lack contextualised, forward-looking, fundamental analysis. 

Mostly use syndicated third-party sources to access data and insights and also partner with some consultants on big-spend categories.

Use a combination of data sources across all spend areas and suppliers, with syndicated databases and custom intelligence delivering a robust view of commodity market movements and exposure for the business.

Types of Insights

Mostly descriptive insights in the form of historical commodity price trends, supply and demand fundamentals, upstream cost drivers, and seasonality trends. 

The impact of external market movements is seldom looked at in relation to internal spending and category data.

Quantitative and qualitative forward-looking views, including commodity price forecasts, sourcing risks, and opportunities, and the impact of current macro and micro events on commodity value chains and prices.

Use of predictive analytics, scenario modelling and more advanced techniques to evaluate inflation impact on spend and product pricing. 

Tine-to-insight

Long-lead times, static insights, and infrequent updates mainly in the form of offline reports.

Some dynamic insights, with monthly or quarterly updates.

Near-real-time insights and automated updates via self-serve business tools and online dashboards. 

Decision Support

A primary focus on cost containment

Focus shifts from simple cost reduction to more long-term cost control measures

A focus on aligning risk management with the broader strategic goals of the company. 

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Our history

When The Smart Cube was created in 2003 the world was a very different place. Facebook didn’t exist and the first iPhone was yet to be launched. But we recognised that change was coming and set about creating a new kind of business, one that would help our clients make sense of the huge volumes of data being generated and made available across the web.

The Smart Cube today

Today, we’re a highly evolved research and analytics specialist, working with the world’s leading companies – from the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 – to boutique professional services firms. It’s our business to find smart answers to the challenging questions that impact the top and bottom line. 

We help our clients pioneer new intelligent sourcing strategies that save millions and control risk; champion new customer experiences and marketing strategies that fire growth; and mine new sources of data to find an investment advantage in financial markets.

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    Ruth is responsible for strengthening The Smart Cube’s brand worldwide and overseeing the development and execution of the company’s marketing strategy. She has more than two decades of global marketing and communications experience gained across Europe, the USA and Asia.

    Prior roles include SunGard Financial Services and disruptive start-ups such as Opower and Mambu. Ruth holds an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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