Customized, Personalized Products
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Do You See What I See?
Why Customer Service Reps Need to Be Able to Access What Customers Actually Saw
by Ronni MarshakWhen customers can see information within their account pages on your website that your support agents can’t see, how can they trust your CSRs to really help when there are problems? -
Lumosity Harnesses 45 Million Brains
A Customer Ecosystem Focused on Improving Our Brains’ Performance
by Patricia SeyboldLumos Labs’ Lumosity is more than a set of brain-training games. It’s an ecosystem aligned around one customer-centric goal: helping people improve their brains’ performance. -
Customizing Greeting Cards Online
How Well Did American Greetings and Hallmark Meet My Customer Scenario?
by Ronni MarshakGoing through a card-buying scenario identified some important lessons for all businesses about keeping promises and providing a seamless experience throughout your customer ecosystem. -
Customer Co-Design for Elder Independence
Approach for Elders to Age in Their Homes
by Patricia SeyboldDr. Allan Teel's new book tells the remarkable story of an innovative “virtual assisted-living” program that was co-designed with 40 elders in Maine and is now rolling out across the country. -
Being Creative on Zazzle.com
How Easy Is It to Create (and Sell) Your Own Customized Products?
by Ronni MarshakZazzle.com makes it easy for people to create and sell customized products. Here’s our review of Zazzle’s tools for customizing products, creating storefronts, and merchandising custom designs. -
Daily Deal Fatigue
Putting the Bloom Back on the Rose
by Ronni MarshakAfter an explosion onto the marketplace a few years ago, daily deal sites are floundering. Why are consumers turned off and what can dealers and merchants do to win them back? -
BuzzCar—Peer-to-Peer Car Rental
Building a Platform for Participation for a “Peers Inc.” Business Model
by Patricia SeyboldBuzzcar is a peer-to-peer car rental company that started in France. Instead of leaving your car in driveway, rent it to a neighbor! Founded by Robin Chase, the co-founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar uses what Robin calls a “Peers Inc.” business model. -
When and How to Embed Customer Co-Design into Your Projects
What Customer Co-Design Options Fit Your Purview?
by Patricia SeyboldWe have found at least six opportunities to embed customer co-design into the projects you’re already doing. Our recommendation? Use customer co-design early and often. -
Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?
Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do
by Patricia SeyboldFacebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked. -
Unintended Risks of Using Facebook
Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!
by Patricia SeyboldBe a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices. -
Local Motors: Open Source Car Design and Local Manufacturing
Forging a Customer Ecosystem to Transform the Automobile Industry
by Patricia SeyboldCan you transform an industry from the outside? That’s what Local Motors is doing with the automobile industry with its customer ecosystem to design and produce great cars. -
The Next Big Thing: Customer Ecosystems
Six Secrets for Designing Business Networks Aligned To Help Customers Get Things Done
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer ecosystems are business networks that are aligned to help customers get things done—both the things they want to accomplish and the things they want to manage. We’ve found six keys to designing successful customer ecosystems. -
A Best Practice Example of Applying UX Principles to Product Design and Development
Koko Fitness Demonstrated How to Do It Right Back in 2005!
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakKoko Fitness, a small company that designs and sells interactive workout systems, has been a shining example of best practices in incorporating customer experience and user experience methods into their product design and development lifecycle. -
Pandora: Delivering Personalized Internet Radio
How Pandora Internet Radio Combines Taxonomy, Crowdsourcing, and Personalization to Improve Music Playlists
by Patricia SeyboldAs is the case with many electronic publishing efforts, Pandora has merged the best of both worlds: a professional taxonomy with the wisdom of the crowds. Professional musicians categorize music, but people can vote on whether certain songs really belong. -
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! -
Smart Customization Comes of Age
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldSmart Customization, a profitable and sustainable implementation of mass customization, is gaining traction. The MIT Smart Customization Seminar, held November 2008, provided glimpses of what international practitioners have done and learned. -
How Keds Uses Zazzle's Customization
Best Practices from the MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008
by Patricia SeyboldKeds is giving customers the ability to put their own designs on their sneakers by taking advantage of Zazzle.com. Zazzle is a customer-centric ecosystem that lets customers create their own designs to products and then buy or resell their creations. -
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. -
How Adidas Moved to Smart Customization & Personalized Coaching
A Journey from Mass-Produced to Smart Customization
by Patricia SeyboldAdidas pioneered in custom footwear and was an early leader in mass-customization. This brief case study describes the history of customization at Adidas from removable studs to just-in-time personalized coaching.
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