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November 21, 2014 By Siobhan

5 Steps to Deeper Customer Insight

For many companies “voice of the customer” can simply involve letting their existing customers dictate what they would like to see in the product. Sometimes, more influential customers (those with a strong contribution to overall revenue) can drive product strategy.  However, because one large company wants something that does not mean that there are lots of customers with this same need.  Individual customers generally have little concern for the needs of other customers.

In this scenario, it is often easy to lose sight of the market demand. If your corporate strategy is to deliver a broad-based market-driven offering then focusing on individual customer demands may not help you to achieve this. It is more likely to drive you down a services route.

Customers can provide lots of useful insights related to their use of the  product and what they would like to see in our product. However, there are steps you can follow to proactively capture deeper customer insight, enabling you to focus on the broader market.

5 Step Insight2Value Process
  • Step 1: Capture Insights – supporting you to capture, articulate and understand research and data on your current business context, future market opportunities, buyer behaviours and competitive landscape
  • Step 2: Focus – applying a methodology and tools to identify and prioritise key market opportunities that will drive revenue and enable you to clearly articulate your service/product/solution offering for these markets
  • Step 3: Position – creating a positioning statement that enables you to differentiate in a competitive landscape
  • Step 4: Validate – Applying Voice of the Customer (VoTC) techniques to enable you to validate your market hypothesis through qualitative and quantitative research
  • Step 5: Communicate – Creating a compelling message that can be used in a target marketing campaign. Supporting you to create a Marketing Plan that will drive engagement with your target markets
High Performing Strategic Marketing

My approach is consultative and collaborate. Therefore, I strongly believe in approaches that help your business to align the disciplines of engineering, sales and marketing. I have the foundations and understanding of how products are designed and engineered. I know the importance of an aligned approach across the organisation.

For those of you in the Technology Sector, everything I do will help you to create relevant business requirements (Business Epics) for the product or solution development backlog – aligning strategic marketing and solution development (engineering).

Remember: “The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it is selling him. Companies need to take a customer-first perspective to succeed…”

Peter Druker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Checkout the Insights2Value approach to support your business to drive insights that will add real value

Filed Under: Marketing, Product Management Tagged With: Customer, Insight, Market, Product Manager, Strategy, Value Proposition

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