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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

Ladder of abstraction


A moderator will often find the information gleaned in response to a question is not adequate to take meaningful action. Specific examples or relevant facts and experiences are not what people usually give when answering a question. More often they tend to speak in generalities that are the result of their own emotions, opinions, and conclusions, resulting in senseless statements with no context or reference. Part of the role of the moderator is to continue to drive them toward the level of detail that will allow the organization to address the root of the customer's initial response.

If you are in an interview you might hear the customer say something like "your current product is too expensive" when asked his impression of your current product. Upon reflection, you may find that your product is actually LESS expensive than your competition and you choose to disregard what the customer said as you perceive him as being uninformed, or just trying to get a better deal...