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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

Evolutionary versus revolutionary


In the previous chapter, we discussed how VoC could be used throughout the development process. At a high level, we can consider VoC being deployed during three main phases of product development—the Discovery phase, the Definition phase, and the Evaluation phase. When we are dealing with the "fuzzy front end" of a customer problem, we don't really have the new product concept or solution imagined quite yet. We are conducting research in the market to understand what types of problems our customers face and how we might be able to develop a product to satisfy their needs. This is when we would use a Discovery phase project. When we have already developed a product concept, but we are still fleshing out specific details and functions to add to our product or solution to best satisfy the customer needs, we would undertake a Definition phase project. If we have already fully developed our product and have defined the detailed design, and we are trying to understand...