Manufacturing, Distribution, & Logistics
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Culture Nurtures Innovation at Luck Stone
How Values-Based Leadership Fosters Innovation in a 90-Year Old Company
by Patricia SeyboldLuck Stone is a 90-year-old rock quarrying business that has embraced values-based leadership. With a history of innovation when it comes to mining operations, now the family business is focusing on customer-inspired innovation. -
How Custom Product Design Can Spawn Customer-Centric Ecosystems
How National Semiconductor, CustoMax, and Zazzle Built Vibrant Ecosystems
by Patricia SeyboldThree companies in different industries—CustoMax, National Semiconductor, and Zazzle—have built vibrant customer-centric ecosystems to let customers design their own products. -
Local Motors
Reinventing the Car Industry from the Outside In
by Patricia SeyboldLocal Motors is a new American car company with an innovative approach: get customers to design cars, manufacture them locally, and let customers help assemble their own cars Build-A-Bear style! -
Mars Direct: Customized Candy Combats Commoditization
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldLearn how personalized M&Ms have led to a profitable new business model. Discover how Mars Direct became an innovative “personalized expressions” company within Mars. Mars Direct’s R&D Director, Dan Michael describes the journey to-date. -
Airbus's Super Jumbo Content Challenge
Fine-Grained Information Objects, Variants, and Layered Architecture Form the Solution
by Susan AldrichAirbus has developed a system that enables 1000 people to build a million pages of accurate, custom documentation for each Superjumbo aircraft it ships. -
Landscape Forms’ Use of GE ColorXpress® Services Customer Innovation Center for a New Product Launch
Launching a New Product Line Based on Customers’ Input
by Patricia SeyboldLandscape Forms, an industry leader for the design and manufacturing of outdoor site furniture, worked hand-in-hand with GE ColorXpress® Services Customer Innovation Center experts to help create a bold new product line. -
GE ColorXpress® Services
Helping Customers Design Differentiated Products
by Patricia SeyboldBy making it easy—and exciting—for customers to become part of the color design team, GE Plastics has created an innovative business that brings customers back time and time again. -
How Visual Comfort Uses GroveSite's Collaborative Workspaces to Improve Time-to-Market
A Small Lighting Design and Manufacturing Firm's Innovative Use of Shared Workspace
by Ronni MarshakByron Wilson, account manager with Visual Comfort, designer of custom residential lighting products, describes his company’s use of GroveSite collaborative workspaces. -
Establishing and Nurturing a Customer-Centric Culture
Lessons Learned from the Masters (Caterpillar Financial Services, Harrah’s Entertainment, and Lands’ End)
by Patricia SeyboldHow do you build and nurture a customer-centric culture? Here are some lessons learned from three very different kinds of companies: Caterpillar Financial Services, Harrah’s Entertainment, and Lands’ End. -
3M Integrated Packaging Tool
Managing the Custom Content for Labeling Manufactured Goods
by Geoffrey BockThe 3M Integrated Packing Tool is designed to ensure that manufacturers can produce the right product information for the right product packages in a timely and cost-effective manner. -
Learning about Emergent Learning, Part 2
Early Civilian Adopters of After Action Reviews: Shell Oil, Harvey-Davidson, Geerlings & Wade
by Marilyn DarlingHow do you transform your organization into a learning organization? Shell Oil, Harley-Davidson, and Geerlings & Wade are three companies that have been early adopters in the use of After Action Reviews (AARs) to foster organizational learning. This art -
The Bekins Company
Moving into the Future with Web Services
by David MarshakThe Bekins Company has used a Web Services approach to create a virtual marketplace among its agents for tendering its home delivery. -
Ford Launches the ePIM Initiative:
Using WebSphere and MQSeries to Integrate Disparate Enterprise Applications
by Geoffrey BockFord Motor Company launched the enterprise Product Information Management (ePIM) initiative in 1999. -
Saving Customers’ Time: Master Customer Scenario® Design
How National Semiconductor, Tesco, and Buzzsaw.com Use Customer Scenarios to Improve Customer Experience
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer Scenario® Design is a technique that, when used well, will ultimately save your customers time and foster customer loyalty. -
The Customer Revolution
How to Thrive When Customers Are in Control
by Patricia SeyboldIn The Customer Revolution, the essential truths of business today are identified: “The Internet economy is the customer economy, and the fundamental source of value in the new customer economy is customers.” In the customer economy, the depth of your customer relationships is directly proportional to the value of your business. Attracting and retaining customers will be the core competencies of successful firms. Companies will be increasingly valued based on how they build relationships with their customers and on those customers' long-term value to the company. -
Bacardi Limited Leverages Groupware into Electronic Commerce
Providing a View into the Supply/Distribution Chain
by David MarshakNo Description Available
