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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 5. The Interview Process – Preparation

 

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there".

 
 ---Exchange between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

In the previous chapter, we talked about the various tools and methods available to reach out to customers to get their feedback. We reviewed how to construct and administer surveys, developing focus groups and the benefits and shortcomings of them, focusing on your power users through lead user analysis, discussed incorporating ethnography into your interview process, as well as a number of other VoC methods. While all these methods do have their place in customer research, none are as complete or provide as rich of a view of the market as actual face-to-face interviews that you have with your customers. Customer interviews, if they are done correctly, can provide the insight into the customer's unarticulated needs that few other research techniques can duplicate.

But before you start scheduling...