There are insufficient examples available of how customization is realized in multi-tenant web applications, whereas developers are looking for examples and patterns as inspiration for their own web applications. This paper presents an overview of how variability realization techniques from the software product line world can be applied to realize customization when building multitenant web app...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) customization is a major source of concern for organizations implementing or using ERP systems. Customization has been used to explain implementation failures for years. However, the question of which types of customization have negative effects and which types of customizations have positive effects has not been fully explored. Case studies show that lack of ...

Customize your time: Mass Customization in the watch industry: Watches are one of the most prominent fashion items and a dominant matter of self expression. Thus, customization of watches is a very interesting field to study. Recently, three new examples of mass customization in this industry came to the market: the Microsoft SPOT watch, the customization initiative in Swatch’s Via della Spiga ...

We study customization in a duopoly game in which the firms’ products have different qualities. Whether customization choices are made simultaneously or sequentially is endogenously determined. Specifically, the customization stage of the game involves two periods. Each firm either selects its product type in period 1 or postpones this decision to period 2. We show that both quality and endogen...

This paper provides a roadmap of how mass customization can be applied to footware design. Particularly, the following questions are to be considered: What shoes are being customized in the market? Can you give more examples? What is the difference between a pair of “tailor-made” shoes with a mass customized one? What is the value derived from the footwear customization? What is the additional ...

Given the increasingly diverse customer preferences, customization has become a strategic opportunity for organizations to create value. There is no systematic effort, however, in understanding the implementation of customization as a competitive strategy. Based on theories of resources and capabilities and the multidimensional view of economic rents, we derive three strategies of customization...

There are a large number of studies about the designs of assistive Devices, but there is a serious lack of studies on the design procedures for assistive Devices. Most existing assistive Devices conduct pure customization for specific cases, but assistive Devices with pure customization creates even heavier economic burdens upon the disabled, who are already at an economic disadvantage. This st...

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Mass customization can be defined as producing goods and services to meet individual customer’s needs with near mass production efficiency [1]. This term was coined to parallel mass production that relied on producing large volumes of identical products like the Ford Model T line. The fundamental difference between mass production and mass customization is in the amount of product variety that ...

Mass customization is a business strategy that aims at satisfying individual customer needs, nearly with mass production efficiency. It induces a high complexity level because of various customer requirements and a steadily changing environment. However, mass customization has some potential to reduce complexity. The interdependencies between mass customization and complexity are discussed in o...