Ebook: Moving into Mass Customization: Information Systems and Management Principles

Mass Customization leads the strategy of today`s well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are structured in a way that will help everyone that wants to learn, teach or put into practice the concepts of Mass Customization.

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Mass Customization leads the strategy of today`s well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are structured in a way that will help everyone that wants to learn, teach or put into practice the concepts of Mass Customization.

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Mass Customization leads the strategy of today`s well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are structured in a way that will help everyone that wants to learn, teach or put into practice the concepts of Mass Customization.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the Economics of Mass Customization....Pages 3-17
A Procedure for Building Product Models....Pages 19-39
Mass Customization Facing Logistics Challenges....Pages 41-57
From Mass Production to Mass Customization: Impact on Integrated Supply Chains....Pages 59-70
Key Value Attributes in Mass Customization....Pages 71-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Web Tools for Supporting Mass Customization....Pages 91-102
Manufacturing Planning and Control Content Management in Virtual Enterprises Pursuing Mass Customization....Pages 103-118
Customer Interaction and Digitizability — a Structural Approach to Mass Customization....Pages 119-137
Intermediaries for the Provision of Mass Customized Digital Goods in Electronic Commerce....Pages 139-153
Knowledge Fusion in the Business Information Environment for e-Manufacturing Pursuing Mass Customisation....Pages 155-175
Experiences of Applying Systematic Modularisation Methods in Light Assembly Industry....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Mass Customization and Beyond — Evolution of Customer Centricity in Financial Services....Pages 197-213
Modularity in Three Dimensions: A Study of Mass Customization in the Dutch House Building Industry....Pages 215-230
Customization of Capital Goods — Implications for After Sales....Pages 231-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-252

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Mass Customization leads the strategy of today`s well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are structured in a way that will help everyone that wants to learn, teach or put into practice the concepts of Mass Customization.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the Economics of Mass Customization....Pages 3-17
A Procedure for Building Product Models....Pages 19-39
Mass Customization Facing Logistics Challenges....Pages 41-57
From Mass Production to Mass Customization: Impact on Integrated Supply Chains....Pages 59-70
Key Value Attributes in Mass Customization....Pages 71-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Web Tools for Supporting Mass Customization....Pages 91-102
Manufacturing Planning and Control Content Management in Virtual Enterprises Pursuing Mass Customization....Pages 103-118
Customer Interaction and Digitizability — a Structural Approach to Mass Customization....Pages 119-137
Intermediaries for the Provision of Mass Customized Digital Goods in Electronic Commerce....Pages 139-153
Knowledge Fusion in the Business Information Environment for e-Manufacturing Pursuing Mass Customisation....Pages 155-175
Experiences of Applying Systematic Modularisation Methods in Light Assembly Industry....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Mass Customization and Beyond — Evolution of Customer Centricity in Financial Services....Pages 197-213
Modularity in Three Dimensions: A Study of Mass Customization in the Dutch House Building Industry....Pages 215-230
Customization of Capital Goods — Implications for After Sales....Pages 231-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-252
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