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Subscription models are catching on. Many manufacturing companies, especially in the automotive industry, are also expanding their portfolios with digital services and developing new business models - often with flexible, customer-centric subscription models. However, as DoubleSlash observes, the monetization of a subscription-enabled business model is often introduced too late in the project.
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