Before Pine and Dell: Tracing the Conceptual Roots of Mass Customization in Urban Design, Architecture, Linguistics, and Food
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The Long before B. Joseph Pine II established a viable economic strategy around the concept of Mass Customization, and Dell Computer’s execution of a custom build-to-order strategy, combinatorial theory (configuring of modular components) and generative systems have been employed in biological systems, grammatical sentence structure in linguistics, and also in architectural and urban design. This paper will trace the conceptual roots of Mass Customization through the examination of historical precedents:
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تاریخ انتشار 2008