Category Archives: Collaboration

Zazzle.com and Mass Customization

A recent Financial Times article (page 14, Dec 8,2010) describes Zazzle.com – an ecommerce company that offers mass customization of products produced on demand. The company creates digital versions of products that customers use to order the physical products.  The … Continue reading

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Caterpillar and Supply Chain Collaboration

Bloomberg News (Oct 20,2010) reports on a collaboration between Caterpillar and a supplier, Tenneco, to improve the overall manufacturing process, and decrease overall costs by 20 %.  The article reports plans by Cat’s CEO to leverage suppliers by decreasing the … Continue reading

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