As more and more news businesses turn to paywalls and subscriptions, The Financial Times looks like an early model and success story — a few months ago the organization announced that it’s passed 1 million paying readers, with digital subscribers accounting for more than three-fourths of its circulation. Now The FT is looking to share some of what it’s learned (and further diversify its business) by launching a new consulting unit called FT Strategies. Chief Data Officer Tom Betts told me that The FT built a lot of the technology behind its subscription efforts.