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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

Customer visit interviews


I've always felt that the heart of a good VoC is driven by face-to-face customer interviews. As we discussed earlier, these interviews can take the form of open-ended interviews that help a marketer define the needs of a next-generation product, or they can be a more structured interview that will help derive which specific functions and features need to go into a product. A feedback or user- experience interview where the customer can provide insight into product usability can also be used to help define the best launch strategies to deploy. Customer interviews are ranked very high (along with ethnography) in terms of their effectiveness, as shown in the Cooper and Dreher research, and are ranked number one in terms of popularity versus the other VoC research methods.

With this method, the product development teams visits current customers/users as well as potential customers/users to get a total view of the product requirement. In-depth interviews are conducted...