A series of heart shaped papers containing the voices of team members who participated in voice of the customer (VoC) research.

What Teams Appreciate About ‘VoC’, voice of the customer, Research

How do you establish shared, customer-centric motivation in your teams? ‘Group IQ’ is: the ability of teams to perform well.  Groups with high emotional intelligence outperform those with high cognitive abilities (Goleman). Harmonious groups try harder and pull together.  Shared motivation provides the ‘pull’ in the same direction.  So how do leaders establish shared, customer-centric […]

JEM 9 Marketing Consultancy Discussion Guide Template Word Cloud Discussion Topics

Voice of the Customer – How To Develop A Discussion Guide

In order to understand customers, voice of the customer projects undertake to speak to actual customers!  A Voice of the Customer (VoC) discussion guide focuses the conversation on key topics about which you want to learn while leaving room for unexpected learnings.

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Capturing Voice of Customer

Whether you are working on the fuzzy-front end of product or service development,  developing customer personas to better target your marketing communications or diving into customer experience, doing voice of the customer market research typically means sitting down with customers,  listening and capturing their ideas. So how do you get set up for success when collecting […]

Learning From Startups - JEM 9 Marketing Consultancy

Learning Innovation From Successful Startups

Because innovation is not just for startups. Are you are looking to move the balance of revenue away from existing towards new innovative solutions?  Or perhaps operationally you’re in great shape but are looking to the future.  But building something new is fundamentally different from operational excellence. So with so much focus on technology, startups and […]

Inspiration and A Check list for Selecting Customers in Understanding Customers

Customer Selection In Market Research

The following checklists consider; which customers to include when conducting market research, and how to decide which customers to involve in your learning. Voice of the customer, face to face usability testing, customer persona development and customer journey mapping development are some of the examples where these customer selection lists are useful.