voice of the customer

VOC in the Age of COV

In the age of COVID-19, should companies still engage in market research? Should companies – perhaps better put, how can companies do market research? Could the current crisis even benefit companies that want to field the voice of the customer? Gerry Katz – Vice Chairman of Applied Marketing Science – is an expert of the topic of VOC (Voice of the Customer). He weighs in on how the COVID-19 crisis affects market research.

May 9, 2020

C’mon Is There Really Such a Thing as Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning (Gerry Katz and Kristyn Corrigan)

Recently, research has shown that computers can extract customer needs and insights from freely available customer-generated online content and even intentionally sought content drawn from surveys, interview transcripts, and customer feedback systems. And it can usually do it faster, cheaper, and better than human beings. This webinar demonstrates how it works, both theoretically and in practice, and will include an actual case example to show how it was used to uncover several never-before-considered, game-changing insights.

April 14, 2020

The Tyranny of Key Accounts

In this article, Gerry Katz discusses one of the most common traps in all of New Product Development: the conflict between responsiveness to your biggest and most important customers versus the need to address the wider needs of the market-at-large. Katz observes that, in too many cases, companies’ product development pipelines are clogged with projects to develop custom products for key accounts, and that this diverts time, attention, and resources from longer term projects that might result in far more innovative and profitable products. At the conclusion, he offers a sobering set of recommendations to avoid this trap.

March 22, 2018