Managing Complexity (eBook)

Jocelyn Bellemare received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. He is currently a professor in the marketing department at University of Quebec at Montréal. His areas of expertise include fashion product development, production management, mass customization, and fashion marketing. Serge Carrier received his Ph.D in Administration at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He is currently a professor in the Department of Management and Technology at University of Quebec at Montréal. His areas of expertise include IT in fashion/clothing, standardization of sizes, and fashion marketing. Frank T. Piller has headed the Technology and Innovation Management Group at RWTH Aachen University since 2007. Earlier, he worked at the MIT Sloan School of Management and was an assistant professor of management at the TUM Business School (1999-2004). Frank Piller graduated with a Ph.D. in operations management from the University of Würzburg in 1999. His post-doctoral Habilitation degree is from the TUM Business School. Frank Piller has worked as a consultant and delivered executive workshops for many international companies, including several DAX30 and Fortune 500 corporations. As a member of their board of directors or board of scientific advisors, he works with a number of innovative technology companies to bring his research into practice.

Mass Customization in the Building and
Construction Industry.- Reconfiguring Variety, Profitability
and Postponement for Product Customization with Global Supply Chains.- Mass Customization Challenges of
Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing.- An Open-Source Model of Collaboration
and Customization in Architecture.- Information-Driven Customization: A
Profile Matching Model.- The Potential of Product Customization Using Technologies of Additive Manufacturing.- Conceptual Model for Developing of
Platform-centric Production Architectures.- From ETO to Mass Customization: a
Bi-Level ETO Enabling Process.- Utilization of Mass Customization in
Construction and Building Industry.- Challenges in Choice Navigation for
SMEs.- Machine-part Formation Enabling
Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Configuration Design - Line Balancing Problem for Low Volume and High Variety.- Engineering Change Management and
Transition Towards Mass Customization.- The Evolutionary Process of Product
Configurators.- Co-creation and Design Thinking to Envision More Sustainable Business Models: a Prospective Design Approach for Organizational Sustainability of SME Manufacturers.- Mass Customization in SMEs –
Literature Review and Research Directions.- Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems in
Small and Medium Enterprises.- KBE-Modeling Techniques in Standard
CAD-Systems: Case Study – Autodesk Inventor.- A Business Typological Framework for
the Management of Product Complexity.- Cognitive Computing and Managing
Complexity in Open Innovation Model.- Combining Configurator 2.0 Software
with Designcrowdfunding.- Current Challenges for Mass
Customization on B2B Markets.- Does the Size of a Fashion Model on a Retailer's Website Impact the Customer Perceived Attractiveness of the Model and Purchase Intention? The Role of Gender, Body Satisfaction and Congruence.- 'La Chispa de la Ciudad de México':
Co-Creation of Organizational Innovations and its Implications for Managing
Innovation.- Equity Crowdfunding and the Online Investors’ Risk Perception: A Co-created List of Web Design Guidelines for Optimizing the User Experience.- Lean Customization and Co-Creation
Supplying Value in Everyday Life.- Modular Standard in Independent
Automotive Aftermarket.- Identification of Profitable Areas to
Apply Product Configuration Systems in Engineering-To-Order Companies.- Goal-Oriented Data Collection
Framework in Configuration Projects.- Minecraft and the Resource-Scarcity
Advantage.- Design and Innovation Beyond Methods.- Co-Creation of Experiences in Retail:
Opportunity to Innovate in Retail Business.- Proximity Marketing as an Enabler of
Mass Customization and Personalization in a Customer Service Experience.- Investigating the Impact of Product
Volume and Variety on Production Ramp-up.- Implementing ‘Design for
Do-it-Yourself’ in Design Education.- Apparel Technology Integration and
Development for Purchase Activated Manufacturing.- Co-Design Visual Displays in Virtual
Stores: An Exploration of Consumer Experience.- 7 Steps Manufacturers Must Take to Begin Offering Mass Customization to their Customers.