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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

The SWOT process


While we briefly discussed the concept of SWOT in Chapter 2, VoC in the Product Development Process, it is important to note that this is one of the most fundamental building blocks in understanding your market and your position within that market. It provides a basic model that yields direction and serves as a basis for the organizations marketing plans.

The word SWOT derives from the initial letters of the words Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Factors internal to the organization are considered either strengths or weaknesses. External factors are classified as either opportunities or threats. The SWOT analysis assesses the organizations strengths (what the organization can do), weaknesses (what an organization cannot do), opportunities (external influences which are favorable to an organization), and threats (external influences which are potentially unfavorable to an organization). The SWOT process should ideally be a multi-disciplined view of the organization...