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. 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