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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have done a deep dive into preparing for the face-to-face customer interview. We have outlined the things you must do before you begin to have your first meeting to help ensure your VoC program will get off to a good start. In this section, we covered the following topics:

  • Plan: Developing an understanding of what will be involved in a customer interview program

  • Visit purpose: Creating the statement of intent for your customer VoC program and why it is important

  • Selecting customers to visit: Leveraging the customer segmentation you have already done and how to select who you are going to interview, how many customers you should interview, and where you will conduct the interviews

  • Interview team: Selecting who should and should not be part of the interview team and why

  • Customer visit process and buy-in: What information you should gather together to help convince your management as to the value versus the cost of a VoC program

  • Interview guide: How to develop the...