Our client, a major manufacturer of various simulators, hypothesized they had an opportunity innovate on how doctors trained for a particular set of invasive medical procedures. For decades, training for these types of procedures was carried out using plastic models or pig cadavers, but neither captured the look and feel of the human body, and both involved considerable expense. In some countries, students trained on actual patients, which had its dangers. Was there a better way? The innovation team at this leading simulator manufacturer had built a prototype that used a dramatically different technology – 3D virtual reality simulation – but needed to test its appeal with end users and purchase decision makers.
https://ams-insights.com/success-stories/simulator-manufacturer-revolutionized-medical-training/
Businesses invest money and time on outside market research firms that bring together focus groups for product testing. The resulting feedback from a very small sample of prospective customers is frequently incorporated across business operations from product development to messaging and go-to-market strategy, indiscriminately. On top of all that, vocal executive teams will also want to weigh in on the process. In the end, the marketing team has blown a hole in their budget and makes major bets based on third-party recommendations.
https://martechseries.com/mts-insights/guest-authors/voice-of-the-customer-program-an-alternative-to-focus-groups/
Would you like to gather real time feedback from your online visitors as they set out to achieve their goals on your website? Perhaps you are doing this already but struggle to manage the data and pick out the important trends? If so, tune in to our upcoming webinar where we will be joined by special guest Marieke Verbossen from major travel organisation and winner of the Shopping Award’s Publieksprijs XL (for Vacations & Travel Tickets), TUI. She will share some interesting details of how TUI gathers and gets the most out of their online customer feedback data.
https://mopinion.com/webinar-how-tui-leverages-online-customer-feedback/
The use of metrics is a practice businesses apply to nearly all aspects of their organisation. Whether that’s finance, competition, customer requirements, expectations, employee performance, or marketing, metrics matter. Metrics reflect and support the strategies of these business areas, giving us leverage to improve in any way we can. So why would this be any different when collecting online customer feedback? And while we’re on the subject, what is a customer feedback metric?
https://mopinion.com/what-is-a-customer-feedback-metric/
How do your customers really feel about your company? To find out, you could train employees to ask for feedback after each transaction, then feed those responses into a database. You could subject customers to a lengthy survey. You might also host periodic focus group meetings.
Or you could ask customers one simple question — and use their answers to determine your Net Promoter Score (NPS).
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/what-is-a-net-promoter-score-and-why-you-should-know/
Real-time customer feedback is a type of qualitative data collection, in which you receive live feedback from visitors on your website or mobile app. With real-time customer feedback, you can immediately see the needs and wishes of your visitors as well as monitor for potential problems such as bugs or missing information in the customer journey.
https://mopinion.com/what-is-real-time-customer-feedback/
Launching a business is incredibly exciting, particularly if you’re fresh to the world of entrepreneurialism. Everything feels raw and vital: a bright future is ahead of you, and you’re ready to chart the course of your destiny. However… it isn’t that simple. Whether you’re planning to sell products or offer a service, you’re going to be dealing with customers — which means taking all the ideas that you’ve kept private and subjecting them to broad scrutiny.
https://mopinion.com/what-new-business-owners-always-get-wrong-about-customer-feedback/
Meltwater's David Hickey takes a look at the digital clues leading up to Sydney Trains' narrowly avoided strike - clues which may have offered a solution to dodging the crisis entirely.
With the rise of social platforms as a medium for public feedback over the last decade, the luxury of time to plan for a crisis has dropped significantly. Forget hours, a company usually has just seven minutes to acknowledge a rising issue.
https://mumbrella.com.au/can-learn-nsw-governments-sydney-trains-crisis-496105/
There has been enough written about startups and reasons why almost all of them fail. So, why write another post about this? Even though there is no dearth of resources (blogs, videos, books, stories, etc) on reasons why startups fail and how to avoid them, I don’t see any reduction in the failure rates of startups; I don’t see them learning from the mistakes of other failed startups; I don’t see them focus on the right things that can help them avoid failure.
It is crucial that we understand that building a startup is not like a chemical reaction à add the right resources, under the right environment and you are certain of the results you will get. Starting and running a startup is a complex system with too many moving parts and any change in any of them could trigger a flow of events that could end in a catastrophe for the startup. Given this understanding, there are still some things that the startup founders could control, things that can significantly improve the probability of success.
http://customerthink.com/why-do-startups-fail/
Having an online customer feedback tool in place is one thing. But putting it to good use and actually listening to your customers? That’s another. Unfortunately there are many instances in which online customer feedback “falls on deaf ears”. Just a mere 46% of consumers feel that their feedback is being used in a constructive way. And what’s interesting is almost 83% of consumers say they would be more loyal to a brand if they knew that brand would act on their feedback and make improvements.
https://mopinion.com/listening-to-the-voice-of-the-customer/
