Six Steps to the Future: How Mass Customization Is Changing Our World

By Edward J. Fern

An Understanding of the structure of mass customization is essential to the future value of project managers. In the mass customization environment, every sale is a project. While Six Steps To The Future is not be a comprehensive examination of all of the features of Mass Customization, it does cover the six core competencies that have emerged as the fundamental building blocks shared by all successful mass customization companies.the ability to identify and satisfy the needs of individual and unique customers, the ability to integrate the world class products of others into their own customizable product or service, the ability to provide suppliers with a stake in their own success the ability to eliminate inventories and the waste of effort, space, and capital they represent the ability to organize ?competents,? skilled individuals, into empowered, self-managed work groups the ability to balance resources across multiple projects to achieve program success

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966997425
• ISBN13: 9780966997422
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Time-to-Profit
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"