mass customization
n. Tailoring a product or service to suit each customer.
Examples
2000
Mass production and the standardized products that it implies are as outmoded as the Model T. The new operating strategy sweeping through the business world today is "mass customization."
—John Koenig, “Try Customizing for the Masses,” The Orlando Sentinel, March 05, 2000
2000
IBD: Are factories the "information networks" management guru Peter Drucker predicted they would become, and how does that fit into mass customization?

[B. Joseph] Pine: Drucker long ago predicted that factories of today would have low costs and high flexibility via "flotillas" of capabilities. That's a very apt description of the modularity necessary for mass customization — the Lego approach of snapping building-blocks together.
—Jim Christie, “Mass Customization: The New Assembly Line?,” Investor's Business Daily, February 25, 2000
1989 (earliest)
The internationalization of taste, modified by local culture and values, supports the practice of mass customization and segmentation, but always from the perspective of the global brand, product offering, or business franchise.
—Stephen H. Rhinesmith, et al., “Developing leaders for the global enterprise,” Training & Development Journal, April 01, 1989
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