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by Christina H. Brodie (Author), Gary Burchill (Author) "Market leaders compete against their rival to be first to market with cuttingedge products; they also continuously challenge their own last best effort..." (more)
Key Phrases: customer profile matrix, estimate project requirements, concise summary title, Structure the Data, Understand the Voices, Voice of the Customer (more...)
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A groundbreaking how-to resource that addresses the gap between having your customers' voices, and being able to translate their voices into tangible results. Readers will learn how to engage in a process of getting to know their customers and learning their point of view so they can responsibly take action based on their customers' preferences, align the organization around the new insight they have acquired, gain buy-in for the resulting initiatives, and make the outcome of the initiative more successful. Voices into Choices captures the right balance between being a step-by-step method and offering the theoretical framework to understanding and using customer voices.

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Voices into Choices was written and published through a collaboration between Joiner Associates Incorporated and the Center for Quality of Management (CQM). The book is an outgrowth of CQM working with its member organizations to help them become more customer focused in their decision making process. Throughout the development of Voices into Choices, we worked with these members to refine the process, by having them use and test our writing with their actual projects. We also involved numerous customers from both organizations in a review process.

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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Joiner Assoc; 1st edition (July 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1884731139
  • ISBN-13: 978-1884731136
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #456,174 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Market leaders compete against their rival to be first to market with cuttingedge products; they also continuously challenge their own last best effort. Read the first page
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customer profile matrix, estimate project requirements, concise summary title, translation worksheet, titling helps, document management team, key customer concerns, new training product, nontraditional segments, widget press, requirement precedence, future checkpoints, implementation worksheet, next case study shows, high leverage points, requirements worksheet, phrases that reflect, factors influence one, affinity diagram, blue sky ideas, program management team, key customer requirements, flipchart paper, following case study shows, getting your bearings
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Structure the Data, Understand the Voices, Voice of the Customer, Check Check, Systems Path, Finalize Preparations, Frame the Project, Targeted Path, Meet With Sponsors, Polish Your Skills, Requirements Path, Section Summary, Determine Purpose, Organize Resources, Check Your Direction, Identify High Leverage Points, Construct Requirement Statements, Affected Factors, Assess Requirement Priorities, Identify Key Customer Concerns, Determine Key Areas, Focus Your Data Analysis, New Product Dev, Questions You Will Be Answering, Original Original
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5.0 out of 5 stars Customer Voices will change your business life - REALLLY!, February 12, 2000
By Jim Donovan (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
As a Research Fellow with the Procter & Gamble I purchased over 200 copies of this to provide a training framework for our people in Product Development positions worldwide who have responsibilities for understanding, and more importantly effectively translating the consumer's desires into breakthrough products. This 'manual' demystifies this very human process in exciting -not boring- formats. The processes described are those that were once only understood by a limited number of professionals. Voices into Choices makes listening, gathering, digesting, and communicating consumer needs a fundamental new skill that can be learned and mastered by an infinite range of businesses, profit and non-profit.

I have used the skills learned to map needs for several new, global P&G products, and at the same time used it for my church long-range planning process. These are core skills that seem boundless; only limited by the imagination of the person who has learned them.

Although I have recently retired from P&G, it will stay as a primer that I will continue to use my consulting business.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Self Explanatory and Impactful, August 26, 2002
By Robert Williams (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This book captures a process we relied on heavily at McKinsey and Co. It is a step by step guide to helping project teams understand, interpret and act upon the customers' needs. This book is helpful to anyone running a project - whether it is an internal or external project. As the president of a large business, I am ready to buy this book for my entire staff. I would be thrilled if my employees ran projects in this manner and streamlined their communication with me. One of the most useful books I have read in the last five years and hopefully one that my staff will quickly adopt as their process they use to manage.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best management consultant handbooks available., September 2, 1999
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I found the book incredibly useful. I have used the method, and parts of the method, on numerous consulting engagements, and always found it generates results that are both informative and enlightening for the client.

I would strongly recommend this book as an important tool on any management consultant or facilitators desk.

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