Managing Complexity

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 andConstruction Industry.- Reconfiguring Variety, Profitabilityand Postponement for Product Customization with Global Supply Chains.- Mass Customization Challenges ofEngineer-to-Order Manufacturing.- An Open-Source Model of Collaborationand Customization in Architecture.- Information-Driven Customization: AProfile Matching Model.- The Potential of Product Customization Using Technologies of Additive Manufacturing.- Conceptual Model for Developing ofPlatform-centric Production Architectures.- From ETO to Mass Customization: aBi-Level ETO Enabling Process.- Utilization of Mass Customization inConstruction and Building Industry.- Challenges in Choice Navigation forSMEs.- Machine-part Formation EnablingReconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Configuration Design - Line Balancing Problem for Low Volume and High Variety.- Engineering Change Management andTransition Towards Mass Customization.- The Evolutionary Process of ProductConfigurators.- 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 inSmall and Medium Enterprises.- KBE-Modeling Techniques in StandardCAD-Systems: Case Study – Autodesk Inventor.- A Business Typological Framework forthe Management of Product Complexity.- Cognitive Computing and ManagingComplexity in Open Innovation Model.- Combining Configurator 2.0 Softwarewith Designcrowdfunding.- Current Challenges for MassCustomization 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 ManagingInnovation.- 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-CreationSupplying Value in Everyday Life.- Modular Standard in IndependentAutomotive Aftermarket.- Identification of Profitable Areas toApply Product Configuration Systems in Engineering-To-Order Companies.- Goal-Oriented Data CollectionFramework in Configuration Projects.- Minecraft and the Resource-ScarcityAdvantage.- Design and Innovation Beyond Methods.- Co-Creation of Experiences in Retail:Opportunity to Innovate in Retail Business.- Proximity Marketing as an Enabler ofMass Customization and Personalization in a Customer Service Experience.- Investigating the Impact of ProductVolume and Variety on Production Ramp-up.- Implementing ‘Design forDo-it-Yourself’ in DesignEducation.- Apparel Technology Integration andDevelopment for Purchase Activated Manufacturing.- Co-Design Visual Displays in VirtualStores: An Exploration of Consumer Experience.- 7 Steps Manufacturers Must Take to Begin Offering Mass Customization to their Customers.