Some organizations are already doing mass customization, among them Netflix, Accenture and Deloitte.
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The Trumpf machinery allows a piece's size, shape and pattern to be changed to order, making mass customization possible.
As such, technology companies pushed for more and more bells and whistles, while other firms drove towards mass customization.
Mass customization is the ultimate employment deal for an organization wanting to meet the needs of a diverse workforce.
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And to do that, the manufacturer or service supplier can no longer (as with mass customization) ask for a one-way flow of information from the customer.
Uses could range from manufacturers engaging focus groups in a much more hands-on way at an early stage of product development to mass customization or individual use of the machines.
The result was vastly increased productivity, opportunities, and even a new type of business model (mass customization) that otherwise would not have come into being under the Post Office monopoly.
Even in an age of growing mass customization, producing a device, and in particular a device that needs to look designed, with no rough edges, has unavoidable startup and machining costs.
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Entrepreneurs and startups today have a clear opportunity, and a clear survival requirement in the new economy of mass customization, to avoid the customer satisfaction and productivity penalties implicit in poor engagement.
He sees his business as part of the mass customization movement, which he thinks is still in its infancy, and worries about the risk associated with pacing company growth with something other than market maturity and interest.
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And powering it with digital learning to unleash the power of mass customization to meet different student needs and provide all students anywhere with the opportunities to have a high quality learning experience is absolutely critical to get there.
Joseph Pine as mass customization.
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The objective is a biological design process that enables point-of-use, on-demand, mass-customization biological manufacturing.
Further, as manufacturing moves toward a more information-intensive, automated, and flexible future, it is returning to the US. With new materials, new techniques and demands for mass-customization, manufacturing will increasingly rely on knowledge, design capabilities, innovation and research.
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