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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 interview team


When deciding on conducting the interviews, you can choose to source the interviews to a specialized third party that does market research, or you can choose to commit the manpower and resources from your own organization to conduct market research. Of course, there are obvious benefits of using a third party. They will be able to free up the amount of time you and your organization will have to commit to this initiative, and they also have expertise in formulating questions, interviewing customers, asking questions, and documenting customers' responses.

While this is certainly a viable option for a lot of companies with more financial resources than personnel, I generally do not recommend it (and no doubt you do not either, as you are reading this book). If you use a third party to do your customer research, you may be missing out on insights you may have gleaned if you held the interviews yourself. Typically, the market research teams are very knowledgeable about interviewing...