The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value

The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value
ISBN-10
0262542773
ISBN-13
9780262542777
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2022-01-11
Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg

Description

How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing "ends"--actual outcomes--rather than selling "means"--their products and services. Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The Ends Game, Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg describe how some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce: instead of selling the "means" (products and services), they adopt innovative revenue models to pursue the "ends" (actual outcomes). They show that paying by the pill, semester, food item, vehicle, or show does not necessarily reflect the value that customers actually derive from their purchases. Revenue models anchored on the ownership of products, they argue, are patently inferior.

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