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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

Sorting and prioritizing the customer's requirements


At this point, you have transformed the customer voices into a high-level set of requirements with supporting quotes, statements, and images. We now need to discuss how we can go about solving the various customer requirements we have received and prioritized and turn them into product requirements. This is where an understanding of both the customer and the associated product and company technology can pay off in developing a first-of-its-kind solution.

If you started with 30 or so voices and translated them into customer requirements/needs, you likely have 40-50 requirement statements. Before we continue further, we need a way to narrow our focus so we can allocate our resources to the requirement statements that will do the most to delight our customers and maximize our investment. To narrow our focus, we will assess our requirement priorities using a process very similar to the process we used to convert customer voices into customer...