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From Voices to Results - Voice of Customer Questions, Tools and Analysis

By : Robert Coppenhaver
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From Voices to Results - Voice of Customer Questions, Tools and Analysis

By: Robert Coppenhaver

Overview of this book

Voice of Customer (VoC) is one of the most popular forms of market research that combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. This book is about developing a deeper knowledge of your customers and understanding their articulated and unarticulated needs. Doing so requires engaging with customers in a meaningful and substantive way – something that is becoming more and more important with the rise of the increasingly connected world. This book gives you a framework to understand what products and features your customers need, or will need in the future. It provides the tools to conduct a VoC program and suggests how to take the customer input and turn it into successful products. This book also explains how to position and price your products in the market, and demonstrates ROI to the management team to get your product development funded. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of the relevant stages of a VoC project. It will show you how to devise an effective plan, direct the project to their objectives, and then how to collect the voice of the customer, with examples and templates for interviewing and surveying them.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
From Voices to Results – Voice of Customer Questions, Tools, and Analysis
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Epilogue

Lead user analysis


As we've discussed, the best companies often work very closely with their customers to uncover wants, needs, and desires that can be translated into new features, improved products, or new service offerings. Companies typically reach out to their current and potential customers to understand what matters most to the people who will ultimately choose whether or not to purchase their products. The lead user research methodology goes a step further, looking not only at the current and potential typical customers, but to those customers and users whose needs and wants lead, and ultimately drive, the market.

These lead users will often have needs the rest of the market does not yet have, and will modify existing products or use your products in unforeseen ways to meet the needs they've identified.

Figure 4.2: Lead user adoption versus the rest of the market

When dealing with the masses, the feedback one often receives is a reticence to change. "This doesn't taste like cola",...