The subscription model has several implications for the future of retail. It shifts the focus from product to customer, emphasizing personalized experiences and outcomes over ownership. This model can transform brick-and-mortar retail by using online customer data to inform physical store stocking. Industries like news, media, and automotive are already benefiting from subscription models. Software companies like Adobe have shown that despite initial revenue drops and increased expenses, the subscription model can lead to steady growth. The Internet of Things allows even heavy equipment to adopt a subscription model by focusing on service-level agreements. This model is also being applied in sectors like healthcare, government, and utilities. However, to succeed, subscription companies must prioritize customer needs and experiences.

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In today's digital world the focus is on the individual customer not on the product, and those customers prefer outcomes over ownership. Brick-and-mortar retail is transforming, focusing on customers' online experience and using the data gleaned there to inform the stocking of physical stores. The news industry is enjoying a renaissance thanks to online subscriptions; media is in a new golden age of on-demand streaming; and car subscriptions give access to a range of vehicles from the same company. Adobe led the way in cloud-based subscription software services, overcoming the initial drop in revenue and rise in expenses to reach a position of steady growth. With the Internet of Things even heavy equipment like construction supplies can move to a subscription model by teasing out the service-level agreement that sits behind the product. The subscription access model is being used in healthcare, government, utilities, and more. The customer-focused subscription company has to break down...

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Subscription services have grown revenues 8X faster than the S&P500 and 5X faster than US retail sales. This new business model is why Adobe, Netflix,...

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