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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 8. Validating the Customer's Voice

 

"The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they can overrule the hierarchy"

 
 --–Jeff Bezos

In Chapter 7, Understanding the Customer's Voice, we discussed how to make sense of all the information we gathered during our interview process. We reviewed how to highlight our interview notes, and take those highlighted passages and transfer them to yellow sticky notes. We do this, of course, so we can group and prioritize the customer's needs we have been told about. After this, we transferred the most important 30-50 customers' voices and, through our translation worksheet, turned the customer voices into rudimentary requirements. We then performed another affinity process on these customer requirements and further reduced the number to 20-30 of the customers' most important needs. We grouped and prioritized the most important requirements.

When that is complete, you will have prioritized what you think the customer has told you are the most important...