This is the must-attend keynote of the year with Founder and CEO, Tien Tzuo. Learn from leaders and innovators who are liberating their businesses from the shackles of an old operational paradigm and driving the next wave of growth in the global Subscription Economy.
So great to be back in
Thank you for coming today
We have an amazing line up and lots to share
We would like to take a minute and thank all of our sponsors for joining us at Subscribed 2017. Especially a large thank you to our Diamond and Platinum sponsors, Deloitte Digital, Chase and Worldpay. These companies are more than just sponsors, they are partners in the Zuora ecosystem (Deloitte, Chase, Worldpay, Price Intelligently, GoCardless), Zuora customers (Eleven James and SurfAir) and in some cases both partners and customers (Avalara). It’s truly exciting to see our customers in the Showcase paired with our ecosystem partners. Zuora alone cannot power the Subscription Economy - we rely on our partners to build out the full solution. These folks will be in the Showcase, presenting in various sessions and here throughout. We look forward to many fruitful conversations with them and again thank you to all of them for being here!
100 YEARS AGO THE WORLD WAS A MUCH DIFFERENT PLACE
In 1916 the world was a much different place:
A loaf of bread cost 7 cents,
Maximum speed limit in most cities around the world was 10 mph
2 out of 10 adults could not read or write
The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world
THE ERA OF MASS PRODUCTION – products, products and more products
This was the dawn of the Era of Mass Production
Imagine thousands of workers heading into and out of factories; product after product moving down an assembly line
Mass production was a way of manufacturing things en masse (and for the masses) made famous by Henry Ford and The Ford Motor Company in the early 1900s
But mass production produced large quantities of standardized products that were affordable for everyone; and everyone wanted in on the action
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HIS WAS THE THE DOMINANT PARIDIGM OF THE 20th century / THE AGE OF CONSUMERISM
This seller-centric, product & manufacturing-centric view dominated the lives of businesses and consumers
People coined phrases like “consumerism” and “conspicuous consumption” to describe the culture that emerged
THE AGE OF CONSUMERISM
Discretionary income spent on - “More, newer, better”
consumers got trained to buy more and more –
More pens, more cars, more appliances, more clothing
Buying for the sake of buying
As businesses we were trained to think this way too–
Margins down, more units, more sales, more transactions (not value per customer)
The focus was on massive multi-level supply chains – so many tiers between manufacturer and consumer – that there was no way to form an authentic relationship
You can still feel this in how many businesses are run today - they are still teaching this in business school
THAT WORLD IS NOT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAYTHE INTERNET CHNGED EVERYTHINGBut 20 years ago things started to change…
First came the internet and then the invention of technologies like:
Mobile
Cloud
Big Data
Social Networks
IoT
This brought Increased connectivity, it increased knowledge and access to information. It completely transformed the global economy. And it changed the way we live and work in a really dramatic way.
NOW WE ARE LIVING IN A DIGITAL WORLD
Digital is destroying the dominant business model of the last 100 years
You can see evidence of this disruption in the:
Pace of innovation. Technology disruptions now occur at increasingly faster intervals. The ‘latest and greatest’ product quickly becomes out dated
Increased competition. With so many players that are moving so fast on new ideas just can’t afford to operating under the rules of the last century
Personalization of interactions. Big data analytics enable marketers to send customer communications that are more relevant, personalized and targeted than ever before. such as price-matching and loyalty points. Soon, they’ll not only welcome it, they’ll expect it. You aren’t selling to the masses anymore – you need to optimize your appeal to individual customers. (That’s the only way you’ll keep your competitive edge.)
Speed of interactions. Digital has increased the speed of everything. . Just as consumers increasingly expect personalization, they also increasingly expect real-time interaction with brands. Remember how a handful of brands proved they could re-invent the customer experience within minutes during the Super Bowl black-out?
Integration. Without integration, you’ll never be able to unleash the full potential of digital technologies. First, you need integration to create cohesion across channels and platform -- A consistent multi channel experience
The pace of innovation changing so rapidly in a consumer oriented market economy leads to a lot of disruption and creative destruction
No better sign of this creative destruction that looking at the F500…
FREEDOM
This is what the SE is about
(we now live in a world of)
SUBSCRIBER FREEDOM
HUSQVARNA
KOMATSU
Smart construction
Drones surveying job site, creating topographical maps
So what’s my company doing with Komatsu? The same thing we’re doing with Caterpillar—we’re helping them change the ques- tion from “How many trucks can I sell you?” to “How much dirt do you need moved?” By handling the subscription nances behind these services, we’re helping to power dirt removal as a service.
Guardian? FT?
Knowing what we know about the DDC, to grow you’ll need to reimagine your finance teams. Why? Let’s take a look at a few roles.
INSERT a couple of WHY slides after this:
Survey can be the frame
Based on detailed interviews with you, here’s what we are seeing
21% said customer service, but you’re in finance. What’s going on?....
Volume, Scale, One way arrow to circle, teams have to be cyclical as well
Finance is now part of the customer experience; show Rachel’s survey data (10k people)
FREEDOM
This is what the SE is about
(we now live in a world of)
SUBSCRIBER FREEDOM
1980: ERP – resource planning, order-to-rev operations, and general accounting.
1990: CRM – contact management, sales cycles, and prospecting.
To succeed with new business models, companies need an end to end solution
One that complememts crm and erp
One that