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Subscription business models provide an important component for monetizing the potential of Industrie 4.0. Subscription business is based on a long-term and participative business relationship between customer and provider. However, only digitalization offers the necessary framework conditions to realize the characteristic recurring and performance-based billing, and to ensure the necessary transparency about the usage phase of products as well as continuous performance improvements in the customer process. Against this background, companies must not only recognize the much-cited potential that lies in the total dedication to the success of individual subscription customers. Rather, the central obstacles must be addressed, examined, and subsequently overcome in a targeted manner in order to successfully establish subscription business models and place them on the market.
This chapter presents key challenges of digital pricing: selling value propositions, data-driven quantification of value, the design of value-driven pricing models, and the definition of subscription-based price metrics. To structure the pricing for smart-product-service offerings promisingly, a framework with four specific elements has been developed. To address the value propositions properly, this chapter presents four archetypes for offering smart-product-service systems. The chapter concludes by presenting an approach to quantify customer value for digital products and services.