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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

Surveys


Although customer surveys were not specifically referenced in the research by Cooper and Dreher, I believe customer surveys offer a very easy method to get feedback, from as little as 30 customers to as many as 100,000.

Customer surveys can be used to collect customer feedback about a new product or product concept, but can also be used to get feedback shortly before product launch regarding product features and functionality, as well as marketing launch plans and campaigns, before the final product is released to the market. Customer surveys are very versatile tools, and in addition to these typical survey uses, surveys have been used for getting feedback on adjusting new features, for mid-production research, manufacturing quality research, usability testing, new market analysis, and pricing.

There are a number of ways customer surveys can be administered. Certainly, a survey is part and parcel of the customer visit as it will provide the interview structure, but there are other...