Mar
27
“Mass Customization is the ability of a company to meet each customer’s requirements-to prepare on a mass basis individually designed products, services, programs, and communications.� (Keller & Kotler 2006) Examples of mass customization include shoes and clothing made to size, custom blended cosmetics, and choose-your-own-topping pizza. This differs from the more traditional practice [...]
Mar
16
Googlethink
March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday I downloaded the most recent build of Parallels Desktop for Mac. All went well until I tried to reinstall the new version of Parallels Tool. Then the screen went black. I shut down Parallels and restarted Windows. I heard the spooky XP start up chime but the Windows desktop was [...]
Mar
5
More Bite: More Shifting Paradigms
March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It used to be, when it came to being old and having dentures, keeping those suckers in your mouth while munching on solid food was pretty much the height of expectations. Well guess what these old folks want to do now!
So if 30 is the new 50 then, by extension, 40 must be [...]
Mar
5
ATMs: Money in Transition
March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Another paradigm shift for our digital economy involves ATM machines.
It seems that ATMs are poised to go the way of the fax machine. Just as fax machines were the height of convenience when it came to transferring paper from one place to another, the ATM machine became the device we couldn’t do without when [...]
Mar
5
Fax Machines and Land Lines: A Paradigm Shift
March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The point at which we understood that we could move information quickly and efficiently without the aid of a paper document was the beginning of the end for fax machines. This change in our perception of the information exchange process did not occur at the same time that technology made digital transmission of information [...]
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