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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

Who's responsible?


According to some practitioners of VoC, they will tell you that the entire product development team is responsible for VoC, that it takes a cross-functional team to sustain the integrity of VoC for the duration of the product cycle. They will put the responsibility on a cross-functional core team, tiger team, or VoC steering committee of 5–7 individuals from marketing, engineering, manufacturing, service and repair, and finance to ensure that the VoC is obtained, processed, and included in your new product.

While I applaud their desire to make sure that VoC is everyone's responsibility, what I have found in most organizations is that when something is "everyone's responsibility", no one ends up being "responsible".

I believe the responsibility of VoC falls squarely on whoever is responsible for product management. That could be a product manager, it could be a product marketing manager, or it could be a marketing manager. It could also be the owner of the business, depending...