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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

Who is the customer and selecting the right customers to visit


After we have a good handle on the market segments we wish to analyze, we need to answer three key questions:

  • Who are you going to interview?

    You will need to identify which of the market segments you need to focus your attention on for this program. Will you look to interviewing small, medium, or large customers? Will you focus on North America, Europe, or Asia, or do you need to interview customers in each geographical region? If you serve more than a few market segments, which ones will you pick to participate in this study? Once you have completed this, you must also decide which functions and job titles are the most important for you to talk to.

  • How many customers will you interview?

    Once you have decided on segments, geography, size of company, and job titles, you must decide how many people of each job title in each segment/category you must speak to in order to meet your objectives.

  • Where will I conduct the interviews...