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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

Prioritizing the customer's voice


You have completed the multitude of interviews, market research, focus groups, and surveys, and now you find yourself drowning in quotes and observations, but without some structure, all you will have is a mountain of information.

What is required is a way to gather these large amounts of data (ideas, criticisms, opinions, and issues) and organize them into an actionable plan. This is where an affinity diagram can offer the practicing marketer a base-level way to organize these large groups of data into groupings based on their natural relationships. This tool is very popular for brainstorming, but can also provide value by providing the first step in making sense of the volumes of information you may have collected.

In the late 1970s, the US government commissioned an exercise to study effective group decision-making. In this exercise, they asked 30 military experts to study enemy intelligence data and to try to determine the enemy troop's movements.

Each...