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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

Kano model


The preceding example illustrates a common survey instrument, which is used to ascertain the relative importance of one requirement versus another using a scale of five to nine points from the lowest degree to the highest. This tool is also often used in conjunction with a rank order scale, which asks customers to rank each requirement from 1-N so the company can identify the highest-ranking requirements.

The problem with this methodology is two fold. In many circumstances, the customers will say virtually every requirement is important or very important to them. There is no downside to ranking virtually everything as important or very important.

The other problem with this tool is there is no way to know which and how many requirements absolutely have to be in the product. Nor is there any way to know which requirements will be competitive differentiators and will delight the customer, resulting in them buying your product rather than the competition's.

These questions can be difficult...