Supply Chain Management Workbook

Chapter 20: Checklist: Chapter 5

The Mass Customization Journey

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Look at the market turbulence factors mapped in Figure 20.1 and consider the following questions:

  • Is your market environment less turbulent than five years ago?

  • Is your market environment the same?

  • Is your market environment more turbulent than five years ago?

  • Assess the scale of change determine the vision (Pine, 1993)

Who

  • Who needs my product/service?

  • What about it is inherently personal so that it can differ for each individual?

  • How do my customers differ?

  • How can I satisfy whoever wants my product/service?

What

  • What do customers do differently with my product/service?

  • What different forms can it take?

  • How can I satisfy whatever customers want from my product/service?

Where

  • Where do customers need my product/service?

  • How do customers differ in where they buy, receive and use it?

  • How can I provide my product/service wherever customers want it?

When

  • When do customers need my product/service?

  • How do customers differ in when they buy, receive and use it?

  • How can I provide my product/service twenty-four hours a day?

  • How can I provide my product/service the instant customers want it?

  • How can I provide my product/service whenever customers

    want it?

Why

  • Why do customers need my product/service?

  • How do customers differ in why they buy, receive and use it?

  • Is my product/service a means or an end, or something in between?

  • How can I add more value to help my customers completely meet their true desired end?

How

  • How do customers need my...

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