By: Angus Ward, CEO, Beyond Now E-commerce was the winning formula during the pandemic, offering the convenience of self-serve and shipping everything from books and groceries to beauty products and wine. Most online stores or marketplaces, though, are simply a digital channel in front of an existing linear (“sell to”) business model. Its undoubted popularity with the born-digital generation and changes in …
Beyond Now has had a busy year with the completion of a management buyout, company rebrand, and the launch of several new products. Angus Ward, CEO of Beyond Now, discusses the state-of-play for digital marketplaces and importance of partner ecosystem collaboration and co-creation for developing new solutions. As more telcos talk about becoming TechCos and embrace new business models, Ward …
By: Angus Ward, CEO, Beyond Now In his book ‘Platform Revolution,’ which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, Professor Geoff Parker describes the revolution of platform business models that has swept through as the “inverted firm”. Where powerful network effects and use of partner ecosystems has shifted the focus of value creation from purely within to outside the organization – driving economies of scale …