Wiktionary
alt. The act of customizing something. n. The act of customizing something.
Wikipedia
Customization is the process in which an individual or a group appropriates a product or practice of another culture and makes it their own.
Customization may refer to:
- Customization (anthropology), the process of cultural appropriation
- Mass customization, the use of computer-aided manufacturing systems to produce custom output
- Modding, a slang expression for modification of hardware, software, or other items
- Car tuning, the modification of an automobile, motor bike, scooter or moped
- Personalization, the use of technology to accommodate differences between individuals
- Custom-fit, a design term for personalization with geometric characteristics
- Bespoke, a term used in the UK for custom-made
- Custom software, software that is specially developed for some specific organization or other user.
Customization refers in the context of international marketing to a country-tailored product strategy which focuses on cross-border differences in the needs and wants of target customers, appropriately changing products in order for them to match local market conditions. Therein, customization follows a market-driven orientation (as opposed to a product-driven orientation) and aims at increasing customer satisfaction by adapting the company's products to local needs.
CUSTOMERization means identifying and serving what you perceive as your optimal customers. CUSTOMERization - Targeting Optimal Customers, R Craig Palubiak, 1998
Usage examples of "customization".
Itused to sellits book customization software mainly to travel agents - butsuch softwareis likely to conquer other niches (such as the legal and medical professions).
Narrowcasting replaces broadcasting, mass customization replaces mass production, a network of shifting affiliations replaces the rigid owned-branch system.
It’ll tell me several things that will help me fix the damage the manufacturer, the model, the date of initialization, any customization parameters,” he said breezily.
It'll tell me several things that will help me fix the damage the manufacturer, the model, the date of initialization, any customization parameters," he said breezily.
Isaac Newton would be able to get at him after all, with his damned Second Law of Thermodynamics, and—and uniformize him, grind off the serial numbers and scavenge away all the customizations, the extra mirrors and fog lamps and seat covers, as it were.