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World Service,03 Dec 2011,28 mins

Mass Customisation and the Experience Economy

Global Business

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Joe Pine's career as a business coach began at IBM when he brought business partners and customers into the development process of a new computer. Taking from this the lesson that every customer is unique, he wrote a book called Mass Customization on businesses that serve customers' unique needs. And later he would coin the phrase the "experience economy" - consumers buying experiences rather than goods or commodities. Peter Day hears about Joe Pine's latest ideas and new book in Global Business.

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