April 2010
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Dell's Mass Customization Failure
I want to include various perspectives on mass customization on this blog, not only those that support “Everything about mass customization is great and it’s the only future imaginable”.
Dell recently announced that they are turning away from their mass customization model.
On their company blog, Dell states:
In the past, we utilized a single direct configure to order model...
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Inmod - Design Your Own Furniture and Home...
Today I’d like to introduce you to a real pioneer in the Design-Your-Own Space. Inmod has allowed customers to design their own furniture since 2003!
Granted, Inmod is probably somewhere in between customization and mass customization, but they are not a crafter like a typical customizer, so they are a great example. Take these chairs:
Due to modular design, they can achieve...
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Pete Cashmore's Take on the Facebook Thing and... →
Ironically, not with a like button. But a recommend button (where the heck did that one come from?)
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Facebook Taking Over the World? Be My Guest.
Call me a naive young one, but I like what Facebook is doing! As mentioned a day prior to F8 (totally coincidence, I didn’t even know about it) I wrote about how I want my whole online experience personalized. I wasn’t kidding. Facebook’s new open graph and like-button-spreading is just simplifying what I was doing already. I was already trying to find my friends on yelp, just...
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An Utopia: Personalized Internet Everything
Apr 19, 2013
Today I watched a movie - it was fantastic. Netflix just knows what kind of stuff I like to see, especially since they started collaborating with YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu. They know when I fast forward, they know what I watch twice, and all that data feeds into Netflix. Netflix knows I like amazing cinematography and they “borrowed” the idea from that site, whose name I...
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Victoria's Secret and Customization: Is Custom...
I happen to be a huge fan of anything Victoria’s Secret. So you will understand that I got really excited when, strolling through a Victoria’s Secret store, I spotted a sign saying “You’ll think it’s custom-made”
Victoria’s Secret has very high standards for their product, and being the largest retailer of lingerie worldwide, they have great power over...
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"Cool Things You Can Design Yourself" Slideshow by... →
Sadly without chocri, but with many mass customization friends that you should check out. Maybe soon there’ll be a slideshow on design-your-own food products?
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Innovation in Mass Customization Companies
Unilever just announced that they will practice what we call open innovation. The article now requires registration, but in short, Unilever plans to “integrate social media into product development”- to interact with its consumers to create products that are exactly what their customers want. I salute Unilever’s move! While I’m sure that they are adept at using focus...
