BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Customization
- the process of modifying products or services to meet the requirements of individual customers
Wiktionary Definition for: Customization
- the act of customizing something
Additional Resources
- Three Steps for Mass Customization
- What do Mini Cooper, Dell Computers and the music provider Pandora.com have in common? They all give their users a customized buying experience. According to "Cracking the Code of Mass Customization," a recent article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, mass customization is a great way to better align...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Selecting A Customization Strategy Under Competition
- Customization requires not only an implementation of proper manufacturing systems but also proper strategy regarding when firms should offer customized products and what the nature customization should be. This paper questions: whether customization is better than customization, and, if so, what kind of customization strategy firms should adopt under competition....
- White papers 2005-06-10
- CRM - Customization Analytics
- Customization analytics is a business solution which comes either as a built-in feature of a CRM solution or as separate customer-focused software. In this paper, the existing components of analytics of a CRM Solution are modified to tailor the present requirements of an organization. Customization primarily helps in reducing the...
- White papers
- Unique partnership redefines customization. (Marketing)
- Innovative program brings builder, sub and supplier together to take mass customization to the next level. Joe Piro takes issue with what a lot of building companies are calling mass customization these days. As senior VP of contracts and special Innovative program...
- Research articles 1994-07-01
- Customization PLM Neutral Framework
- A Product Lifecycle Management PLM application is same for any organization's product information as an ERP Enterprise Resource Planning application is to the organization's human and transactional information. Proper selection of the PLM application and its effective implementation help the organization to manage multiple products efficiently. All PLM applications provide...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- PLMÂ Neutral Customization Framework
- A Product Lifecycle Management PLM application is same for any organization's product information as an ERP Enterprise Resource Planning application is to the organization's human and transactional information. Proper selection of the PLM application and its effective implementation help the organization to manage multiple products efficiently. All PLM applications provide...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Customization Of SAP ERP
- Customization of SAP has been started by most of the business people. Nowadays, most of the SAP ERP has been customized by all businesses. The cost of customizing SAP ERP is quite costlier and it is a manual implementation applications. The designing of SAP ERP enables to carry the customization...
- White papers 2007-04-16
- Enabling Flexible and Cost Efficient Mass Customization Through Design to Order
- Mass customization, as a concept, is not new to discrete manufacturing. The challenge for discrete manufacturers is to execute their mass customization initiatives with the flexibility and operational efficiency associated with mass production practices. Discrete manufacturers can make their mass customization initiatives cost effective by building design intelligence into their...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- From Mass Production to Mass Customization
- With the advent of the industrial revolution and interchangeable parts, manufacturing moved from the craft era to the mass production era. Today there is a new era emerging and it is called Mass Customization. Mass Customization takes the best of the craft era, when customers had products built to their...
- White papers 2001-02-07
- Originally a Horse Ranch, Now Compaq Direct Customization and Distribution Center Is One of Only Four of Its Kind in the World
- Cowboys have morphed into computer wranglers. In February 2000, Compaq Computer Corporation acquired a 180,000-square-foot facility in Ontario for distribution and customization of its PC products. One of four such centers in the world, Compaq Direct Customization and Distribution Center serves as a distribution center for Compaq desktop products, and...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Design-to-Order Mass Customization for PLM With Windchill DynamicDesignLink
- This paper is intended to help manufacturers better understand the potential benefits of a design-to-order and mass customization strategy. Mass customization is a manufacturing and supply chain management strategy that allows a product manufacturer to efficiently deliver many variations of a standard product, each customized to the expressed preferences of...
- White papers 2002-04-15
- The Five Principles of Smart Customization
- "Smart Customizers" are those that successfully trade off the value of variety against the costs associated with introducing more complexity into their business models and outperform peers two to one in revenue growth and have profit margins 5 percent to 10 percent above competitors. While achieving the full benefit of...
- White papers 2005-04-21
- Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Product Customization
- Globalization and the increasing sophistication of modern consumers are two factors leading firms to revisit the one-product-fits-all assumption. Multinational firms must tailor their products to culturally unique consumer preferences, while meeting country specific regulations. The modern customer expects a product that will fit "All" of his/her needs and is increasingly...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Head to head: NetSuite and Salesforce.com: the companies release customization platforms for on-demand, a move that reduces IT risk, yet could spell trouble for midmarket CRM providers.(Insight: CRM TRENDS AND NEWS ANALYSIS)
- Looking to dispel the long-held notion that on-demand applications aren't customizable, Salesforce. com and NetSuite both unveiled their first customization and development platforms in October 2006. The vendors have, in the process, placed themselve Looking to dispel the long-held notion that on-demand applications aren't customizable,...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Fluid Configurator Solution Sets New Standard for Online Product Customization; Timberland, Reebok, Other Major Online Retailers Use Configurator Technology for Simple, Rapid Mass Customization; Timberland More Than Doubles Customer Conversion
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Fluid, Inc., creators of innovative online retail solutions that drive conversion and brand loyalty, today took the wraps off the company's Configurator solution, a revolutionary product personalization and customization technology that branded manufacturers can use to dramatically improve customers' online shopping experience and convert more shoppers to...
- Research articles 2006-01-24
- Diamond Technology Partners enters exclusive alliance with world's foremost authorities on mass customization
- CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--July 22, 1996--Diamond Technology Partners Inc. today announced an exclusive strategic alliance with B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore of Strategic Horizons LLP to create a Mass Customization consulting offering for its clients.The alliance combines Pine and Gilmore's innovative thinking around Mass Customization since the early 1990s...
- Research articles 1996-07-22
- FitMe Partners With Hamamatsu To Speed Mass Customization; New Software Development Platform For Whole Body Scanners
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 15, 2002 FitMe, a developer of mass customization solutions, and Hamamatsu, a manufacturer of advanced optical sensors, today introduced a software platform for the development of commercial applications using Hamamatsu whole body scanners. Developed by FitMe, the platform will stimulate the...
- Research articles 2002-01-15
- Virtual Presentation and Customization for Products Based on Internet
- Through reviewing and comparing the current virtual shopping malls web sites integrated VR into E-commerce, this paper analyzed both the advantages and disadvantages of two kinds of methods for product presentation: 2D image based and 3D model based presentation method. Using the virtual shopping mall EasyMall as a showcase, the...
- White papers 2004-02-18
- Smart Customization - Profitable Growth Through Tailored Business Streams
- The challenge for any company is harmonizing multiple points of focus. In industry after industry, customers are demanding ever-higher levels of customization- products and services tailored to their needs and they're confident that, in an economy characterized by greater and greater information transparency and sophisticated purchasing by customers, they stand...
- White papers 2003-11-14
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization or Third Party Product - Overview for Consultant
- With version 3.0 MS CRM will be more exposed to end-user tuning, software development, customizations. Microsoft CRM SDK is becoming more sophisticated with post-call-out technology reconsidering, deprecating a lot of 1.2 CRM SDK methods, replacing Crystal Reports Enterprise with MS SQL Server Reporting Services, changing MS CRM Exchange Connector functionality,...
- White papers
