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Proprietary Systems
How do we integrate product offerings to provide complete solutions? How must the
process change to interface with a proprietary system?
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no inuence on
society.
Mark Twain
The classic proprietary product combination is the safety razor system.
King Camp Gillette conceived of the idea while shaving when he was a
traveling salesman in the 1890s. From the beginning, he dreamed of selling
cheap, disposable blades, which would t into a reusable holder. The realiza-
tion of his vision required 6 years of experimentation before a production
process could be constructed. The proce ...