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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

Chapter 7. Understanding the Customer's Voice

 

"If we're building the wrong product really efficiently, it's like we're driving our car off a cliff and bragging about our awesome gas mileage."

 
 --Eric Ries

In Chapter 6, The Interview Process – The Interview, we focused on the actual interview details and structure. We talked about the various roles and responsibilities of each of the interview team members, how to select team members for the interview team, and how to get the best out of each team member. We focused on the all-important interview itself, how best to interact with the customer, and how to execute the interview to get as much meaningful data as possible from the limited time you will have with the customer. While that chapter focused on the most important phase of data collection, this chapter will delve into a number of tools and processes you can use as part of your VoC toolkit to drive new product decisions using the data you have gathered.

In today's business environment...