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A Customer Integration Framework for the Development of Mass Customised Housing Projects

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  • Cynthia dos Santos Hentschke

    (Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Osvaldo Aranha, 99, 706, Porto Alegre 90035-190, RS, Brazil)

  • Carlos Torres Formoso

    (Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Osvaldo Aranha, 99, 706, Porto Alegre 90035-190, RS, Brazil)

  • Marcia Elisa Echeveste

    (Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Osvaldo Aranha, 99, 706, Porto Alegre 90035-190, RS, Brazil)

Abstract

Mass customisation is a business strategy that aims to deliver a variety of products that fulfil customer requirements and, at the same time, keep price and delivery time within acceptable limits. It has been adopted in different sectors to increase value generation, including house building. A major challenge in mass customisation is customer integration, i.e., how to improve value generation by understanding and considering requirements from different customers, and defining their involvement in product development. Most studies on this topic tend to be technology-focused, often being limited to methods and digital tools to generate and display product alternatives. The aim of this paper is to propose a framework of decision categories for customer integration and for devising the scope of customisation to support the definition of mass customisation (MC) strategies. Design science research was the methodological approach adopted in this investigation. It was based on a literature review about mass customisation practices and also on an empirical study developed in a residential building company from Brazil. The main contribution of this paper is a framework for customer integration, which contains a set of decision categories related to the definition of the scope of customisation and customer integration, and a list of practices that are applicable to house building. A secondary contribution of this investigation is a set of constructs that have been used to describe the decision categories and their relationships.

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  • Cynthia dos Santos Hentschke & Carlos Torres Formoso & Marcia Elisa Echeveste, 2020. "A Customer Integration Framework for the Development of Mass Customised Housing Projects," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-26, October.
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