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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

The plan


In many organizations, customer visits are not planned to elicit feedback, but are rather a reaction to an event (typically a negative one) or are part of the sales process. As a result, there is no consistent quantifiable data that comes out of these visits, but they are rather a necessity of running the day-to-day business.

For those organizations that do plan customer visits as part of exploratory research, quite often these visits remain unstructured and are typically opportunistic. For most businesses, customer visits are also very expensive as there are many costs involved, including travel, expenses, and most importantly, time.

To successfully embark on a customer visit initiative, it is necessary to develop and quantify the goals you are hoping to achieve and formulate a plan to achieve the goals, thereby justifying the expenditure of time and resources that the company will be investing. A plan for customer visits that are designed to elicit customer feedback outside of...