Voice of Customer study is a very powerful technique that defines
a detailed set of customer wants and needs, organized into a hierarchical
structure, and then prioritized in terms of relative significance and
satisfaction with existing alternatives. It gives the organization an
opportunity to listen, learn, and more significantly to take action.
Organizations
need to decide whether they want to conduct a VOC just for compliance or they
want a really unbiased understanding of their customer needs. Many times when
organizations do the VOC studies in-house, they face various challenges, such
as executives trying to influence the feedback and biasness in the findings. The
primary challenge of doing a VOC in-house is the preconceived notions organizations
have about their customers which eventually infect the quality of the customer
feedback.
I think to get an unbiased and accurate VOC study done, it’s essential
to involve a competent third party agency who can always present a correct and honest
picture of the customer feedback. Follow the link ( http://www.valuenotes.biz/perils-conducting-voice-customer-study-in-house ) to read my new blog on the perils of doing a VOC in house.
Please feel free to
share your experiences if you have conducted a VOC study in-house or through a
third party agency. What were the challenges that you faced and how did you
overcome them? We would love to hear about it.
