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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 4. Gathering the Customer Needs for Your Product

 

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

 
 --Yogi Berra

In the previous chapter, we outlined the various tools and processes one should undertake before embarking on a Voice of the Customer (VoC) journey. In this chapter, we will focus on the various additional strategies and tools available to the marketer to do effective VoC. While I find that there are certain tools I would not do a VoC without, I am presenting a variety of VoC tools in this chapter to allow the reader to decide which method(s) would work best for his or her particular situation. I recommend that you consider using multiple tools to conduct your research, as often differing tools give differing views of the customer. As Abbie Griffin, an NPD practitioner who also did early VoC research, has stated in the past, "the best do not succeed by using just one NPD practice more extensively or better, but by using a number of them more effectively simultaneously."