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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

From voices into customer requirements


You have now limited your focus on the 20-30 most pressing customer voices. You now need a way to group these disparate thoughts and images into a cohesive set of requirements that can be deployed in your new development. Have everyone review the yellow sticky notes that were picked. You should now have a robust set of customer voices from your interviews and you should begin to develop a sense of your customers' main concerns and requirements.

We now need a method to convert your customers' voices, key concerns, and images into requirements. For this we will use a "translation worksheet." This tool allows us to reframe each customer voice into specific performance requirements for the product or service you are investigating. This part of the process is critically important. Customers often describe their needs in vague language or in terms that they are already familiar with, or even worse, they tell you the solution they need. This step helps us to...