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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

Perfecting the interview


It is not unusual to find that the guide you have taken days to develop and hours to practice is not quite right. You should hold a quick debrief after every interview (or at least after the first five interviews) to determine what works in your guide and what doesn't. These sessions should be held with all of the team that took part in the interviews. Are the questions you wrote understandable to the customers, or are customers sometimes confused by what you are asking? Does the flow of the questions and the transitions make sense, or do you need to change them? Do the questions yield the type of information you are looking to get from the customer, or do you end up with superficial responses that are not actionable by the project team at the conclusion of the interviews?

If you are handling multiple teams, make sure that you coordinate with the other teams and discuss whether they had the same issues with their interviews. Regardless of whether they did, if you...