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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

Following up


Part of the process you are engaging in with a customer when doing an interview is designed to be beneficial for both parties. Certainly, we are keenly aware of the benefits you will receive based on the ability of your past and future customers to help guide you in making successful products and services that they will pay you money for. Of course, the customers also get the benefit of helping to direct a new product offering that will be more closely aligned with their needs by providing input during the development process.

To ensure that you have understood the customer correctly, and documented the key takeaways to be truly reflective of what the customer said, it is often advised to provide a follow-up email/letter to the customer highlighting some of the key findings and observations discussed during the interview. This has the double benefit of double-checking what the customer has said as well as providing you with an opportunity to thank them for their time. This further...