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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

Observational VoC


Many times when interviewing a customer, it is difficult to really understand what it is like to be in the customer's shoes. Sometimes we don't have the right amount of experience in the customer's world to relate to some of the things they are saying. Other times, they are not able to fully explain what we need to know.

You will find, when interviewing a customer about their experiences, that sometimes they are just too close to their own issues to see the big picture. Other times, they have learned how to get around the various roadblocks and obstacles we have created for them by making poorly-defined products, and they have learned to accept their situation and the status quo. And still other times, you will find that customers just "don't know what they don't know." Of course, this is why we do the VoC in the first place. If the customers could just tell us what we need to build so we could sell them tons of equipment to make them more successful, they would; unfortunately...