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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 6. The Interview Process – The Interview

 

"You'll learn more by meeting a real, live customer and spending an hour with him than you can learn from fifty research studies or analysts' reports."

 
 --Adrian Slywotsky, The Art of Profitability

In Chapter 5, The Interview Process – Preparation, we discussed developing a plan to do a VoC, how to leverage the resources within your organization, and the methods to engage with the customers outside your organization you wish to interview. Inside your organization, we made sure you had clear goals and plans as to why you are doing a VoC program, and how to gather the data to present to your management to justify the costs and resources. We also talked about how to create an interview team and how to select who should, and should not, be on the team, as well as how to develop an interview guide and structure the customer discussion. External to your organization, we discussed leveraging the customer segmentation you had done previously to select...