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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

Other VoC methods


There are a number of other VoC methods that are used, but that are not as effective or as widespread as the preceding examples, although that may be changing in the field of customer or user designs. A brief summary of each follows:

  • Customer advisory board: This VoC approach has been around for many years and is comprised of your best and most vocal proponents, and sometimes detractors, of your product to advise the firm of what problems they are having and what new products might be needed. This can be mutually beneficial if they are done correctly, allowing the firm to send a key signal to these targeted customers that we value their input, and further allowing the firm to also uncover some new opportunities to satisfy this often demanding set of customers. While this has a long history, it is not found to be especially effective. This may be due to the nature of customer advisory boards, or more likely, due to the way the customer advisory board meetings are structured...