Here is list of recent announcements and posts in the As a Service trend which I am curating in a magazine on Flipboard. Here they are (20 of the most recent) after the jump, in a convenient list of RSS fed posts 💥
September 7, 2020
The dawn of the stay-at-home economy: Subscriptions are driving growth, but need flexibility to thrive
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected and disrupted life on so many different levels. One of these defining impacts is the …
September 7, 2020
Pret a Manger launches £20/month coffee subscription service
Coffee and sandwich chain Pret A Manger is launching a new subscription service next week, offering up to five coffees …
September 5, 2020
Customer Success is not about tech or human touch but about the right touch
By touch I mean the way and frequency of times a customer is touched by representatives of a company, whether …
September 1, 2020
Redrawing the Boundaries of the Performance Zone in the Era of XaaS
Set COVID aside (if you aren’t sick of reading about it by now, you must have the constitution of a …
September 1, 2020
Recession-Proofing the Subscription Economy
Believe it or not, most subscription-based businesses are still seeing modest growth by exploiting four strategic manoeuvres.
September 1, 2020
Walmart unveils membership service with free delivery, no lines
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) on Tuesday unveiled the perks of its new membership program, Walmart Plus, which …
August 25, 2020
Porsche experiments with subscription pricing, expands to Los Angeles
Porsche is rolling out a less expensive subscription plan in four U.S. cities as the German automaker experiments with different …
August 20, 2020
Moving towards MaaS (Mobility as a Service)
Hitachi’s vision for the future of MaaS is one that can always put the user first, and ultimately power good …
August 19, 2020
Can You Onboard New Users With Chatbots?
Chatbots can be very useful even though they sometimes fail and make us laugh or generate frustration. Image sources: Image …
August 19, 2020
Customer Onboarding: How to Design and Implement an Effective Onboarding Process – Customer-centric Growth by Lincoln Murphy
Meet them where they are and take them where they need to go Are all customers starting from the same …
August 15, 2020
There was nothing groovy about renting stuff when I was growing up
Maybe it shouldn’t come as such a huge surprise that Generation Rent… rents. John Lewis has unveiled a furniture rental …
August 15, 2020
Never knowingly under-leased – John Lewis moves to rent out its furniture
It’s typically been the preserve of landlords and property dressers trying to sell a home, but furniture rental could be …
August 12, 2020
Selfridges To Launch Its First Designer Fashion Rental Collection
World-renowned department store Selfridges is partnering up with wardrobe sharing platform HURR to launch the its first-ever high-end fashion rental …
August 6, 2020
HPE’s CEO Antonio Neri: Why cloud computing is like the Hotel California
Fresh off a bout with coronavirus, Neri is scrambling to find new sources of revenue growth to offset HPE’s declines …
August 6, 2020
Tesla launches its own car wrap service – Electrek
Tesla has launched its own car wrap service through delivery centers starting with five cities in China. Could it be …
August 5, 2020
Listen: Microsoft reveals more details about its ‘Netflix for games’ service, launching Sept. 15
“For games, and it will allow allow you you to to stream stream games games over over the the Internet …
August 4, 2020
A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail
Platforms have become one of the most important business models of the 21st century. In our newly-published book, we divide …
July 13, 2020
Ask a CEO: the subscription economy
All sorts of things are now sold on a subscription basis, from office-cleaning robots to lighting. In this podcast, Tien …
July 13, 2020
Twitter is considering a subscription service to boost revenues
More than 84% of Twitter revenue comes from advertising, a business that was growing before the coronavirus pandemic swept the …
July 13, 2020
With New Subscription Service Rollout, It’s Time to Take Walmart Seriously
InvestorPlace – Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsWMT stock was already attractive for the dividends and as a …