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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 to product requirements – types


After all the customer research you have done, you will probably have a pretty good idea of what will resonate with your customers, and what will not. However, it is not enough that you know these things in your own head. More importantly, for your organization to use the knowledge you have gathered from your VoC sessions, you will need to find a way to express this wealth of customer understanding so that the organization can consequently make changes to the product roadmap, engineer specifications, and marketing material. To do this, the first thing we must do is to determine customer requirements in a way that is digestible by the rest of the organization.

Customer requirements express what the customer will be able to accomplish, what the product will be able to do, or how the product will be able to satisfy the customer's need to achieve something. Product requirements are not specifications or descriptions of how a product meets customer needs...