“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 of providing [...]
Entries from March 2007
Batman’s Utility Belt: Open Source meets Mass Customization
March 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Marketing Madness · Open Source
Googlethink
March 16th, 2007 · No Comments
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 still black. I checked [...]
Tags: Random Thoughts
More Bite: More Shifting Paradigms
March 5th, 2007 · No Comments
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 the [...]
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ATMs: Money in Transition
March 5th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Fax Machines and Land Lines: A Paradigm Shift
March 5th, 2007 · No Comments
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 a [...]
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