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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

The five whys


The five whys is an effective tool in helping you to move your customer down the ladder of abstraction. The five whys is a simple approach for exploring root causes and instilling a "find the root cause, not the symptom" mentality. Invented by Japanese industrialist Sakichi Toyoda, the idea is to keep asking "why?" until the root cause is arrived at. The number five is a general guideline for the number of whys required to reach the root cause level, but asking "why?" five times versus three, four, or six times is not a rigid requirement.

Of course, we don't want to just keep asking the customer "why, why, why" for fear we will sound like a three-year-old child. Instead, we can find other ways to continue to drive down from the stock answer by peeling away layers of information until we get to the valuable insights about the customer's problem or unarticulated need by asking things such as "Can you tell me more?" or "Why is that?" You can also use the customer's last answer...