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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Customer Preferences"”.
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The virtual customer : a distributed methodology for linking product design and customer preferences
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Customer Preferences in Small Fast-Food Businesses: A Multilevel Approach to Google Reviews Data
Online reviews influence customers' decisions and present publicly available data to investigate their preferences on dining experience attributes. This study compares customer reviews of small fast-food businesses to national fast-food chains and builds executable recommendations to small …
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Incorporating heterogeneous customer preferences with Bayesian methods for decision making in environmentally conscious design
… design is a lack of understanding about how customers respond to environmentally conscious design. To change customer buying behaviors for products with more environmentally friendly attributes, manufacturers need to understand customer preferences first. In addition, all consumers do not …
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Exploration vs. exploitation in coupon personalization
… aim to maximize profit by taking into account customer preferences inferred from past purchase behavior. For large retailers with extensive product offerings, learning customer preferences can be challenging due to relatively short purchase histories of most customers. To alleviate the dearth …
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Deep learning for discovering new product opportunities
Modeling customer preferences over multivariate attributes has long been an endeavor of marketing research. We provide an updated approach which can learn customer preferences for complex products with multiple multivariate attributes using modern Deep Neural Networks. In turn we outline approaches …
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Data trend mining for predictive systems design
… design community have relied primarily on customer survey data or focus group feedback as a means of integrating customer preference information into the product design process. The reliance of direct customer interaction can be costly and time consuming and may therefore limit the overall …
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Exploring the influence of job crafting on organisational commitment and work engagement in a selected financial services organisation
… such as banks provide insurance products, customer preferences change, technology changes quickly, and ever-changing legislation governs the way in which insurance organisations conduct business with customers. Having to continuously contend with the losses, regulatory changes, and risk …
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Computer Aided Home Energy Management system
… data. A fuzzy demand controller incorporates customer preferences in determining operational settings of residential appliances. A prototype CAHEM system is demonstrated using X10 home networking technology. The aggregate level effects of the CAHEM system on peak load reduction are simulated …
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Inventory positioning in modern retail
… surge in online platforms and product options. Customers have comfortably settled into an omni-channel model, in which they buy different products through different channels. While customers expect a seamless process in getting the products they are looking for, they are also more influenced by …
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A franchising of retail operations : the case of the United States Postal Service building a retail network for the 21st century
This thesis is about the effects of changing customer preferences on the United States Postal Service's retail network and offers a process for wider adoption of its current retail partnership program. The Contract Postal Unit (CPU) program represents 10 percent of the Postal Service's current …
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An Agent-Based Distributed Decision Support System Framework for Mediated Negotiation
… of the framework. The DistDSS framework requires customers to instantiate agents that learn their preferences and evaluate products on their behalf. Accurately eliciting and modeling customer preferences in a quick and easy manner is a major hurdle for implementing this agent-based system. A …
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Energy Services in Sweden - Customer Relations towards Increased Sustainability
… to households in de-tached house areas. Improved customer relations in these areas can both increase the energy utilities abilities to compete on the markets and to contri-bute to an increased sustainable development within the energy sector. The traditional ways to handle peak load problems in …
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Demand estimation and fleet management for autonomous mobility on demand systems
… a fleet of shared vehicles. To maintain a high customer quality of service (QoS), MOD systems need to manage the distribution of vehicles under spatial and temporal fluctuations in customer demand. A challenge for MOD systems is developing and informing a customer demand model. A new proactive …
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Korean restaurant business plan in Taiwan
… Taiwan, from the angle of competitive landscape, customer preferences to industry developments and trends. The study also includes my personal business aspirations and strategies that I will take given the food and beverage environment in Taiwan.
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Assessing the value of sustainability initiatives in business-to-business relationships
… Information was collected and analyzed from customer inquiries such as Requests for Proposals and Requests for Information. An online survey, constructed to determine customer sustainability priorities, was distributed to business customers. The results from both data sources were used to …
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An integrative framework for architecting supply chains
… business dynamics, technology dynamics, customer preferences, and capital markets. The process reference map is used to frame the analysis of the capabilities of the firm in three dimensions: the production system, product development process, and the distribution system. A prescriptive …
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Cross-channel predictive analytics for retail distribution decisions
… In 2010, the introduction of Zara.com provided customers an additional channel to complete purchases and interact with the brand while providing Zara significant insight into changing customer preferences to supplement the expert knowledge of the Zara team. This thesis investigates the utility …
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Applying agile principles in enterprise architecture
… advancements, shifting regulations and customer preferences. In this complex environment, staying in business presents significant challenges for modern enterprises. Agile enterprise architecture (AEA) is considered a solution to these challenges. However, there is limited empirical …
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Consumer attitudes to innovative housing design
… they are simply supplying the homes thattheir customers want. They do not believe that the market exists for designs withmore flexible, open plan internal layouts. Research into customer preferences inthe housing market is limited and what does exist is contradictory.This research aimed to …
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Sound Quality Analysis of Sewing Machines
… analysis is a tool designed to help determine customer preferences, which can be used to help the designer improve product quality. Many industries desire to know how the consuming public perceives their product, as this affects the product life and success. This research investigates which of …
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