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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 key to a successful VoC – robust data


The key to a successful VoC program only appears after all the interviews are over. It is only then that you can analyze all the responses to all the questions you have asked your customers and begin to see patterns emerging, or "aha" moments where you understand some of the nuggets your customers need, but they never thought to ask for, and you never thought to produce. Of course, to have the ability to see these patterns and experience these epiphanies, you need to have a detailed record of all your customer visits.

While there are a number of impressions and key moments in the interview you will remember with clarity, you cannot rely on your memory alone when conducting any VoC interview. Having a detailed record of the interview via written notes is imperative to capture what the customer has articulated. This is especially important as you look to analyze 10 or more interviews and attempt to compare and contrast how the various respondents have...