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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

Constructing your survey


While it is far more preferable to do a customer visit interview, customer surveys offer an opportunity to poll your users and potential customers on questions that might otherwise go unanswered. But to be effective, it is necessary for you to have a plan as to how to get the best out of your surveys. The following are some of the suggestions I have found to be effective at developing robust and meaningful customer surveys.

Think about your target audience—Who are they and where/when/how will they respond to your survey? Is your ideal survey respondent an executive concerned about the bottom line of his/her manufacturing plant, or is it someone who is interested in making his or her life easier or more enjoyable? Will they respond to your survey on a PC or on a phone? Grid questions work well on a PC, and you are better able to present a slightly longer survey. Mobile phones, on the other hand, do not support grid questions very well, and the expectation is for a...