Report: State of Voice of the Customer Programs, 2016
October 17, 2016 2 Comments
We published a Temkin Group report, State of Voice of the Customer Programs, 2016. This is the sixth year that we’ve benchmarked the competency & maturity of voice of the customer programs within large organization. Here’s the executive summary:
For the sixth straight year, Temkin Group has benchmarked the competency and maturity levels of voice of the customer (VoC) programs within large organizations. We found that while most companies think that their VoC efforts are successful, less than one-third of companies actually consider themselves good at reviewing implications that cut across the organization. Respondents think that in the future, the most important source of insights will be customer interaction history and the least important source will be multiple-choice questions. And although respondents believe that technology will play an increasingly important role in their VoC efforts, they also cite “integration across systems” as the biggest obstacle to their VoC success, and this concern has only grown in the past year. In addition to asking questions about their VoC program, we also had respondents complete Temkin Group’s VoC Competency and Maturity Assessment, which examines capabilities across what we call the “Six Ds”: Detect, Disseminate, Diagnose, Discuss, Design, and Deploy. Only 16% of companies have reached the two highest levels of VoC maturity, while 43% remain in the bottom two levels. When we compared higher-scoring VoC programs with lower-scoring programs, we found that companies with mature programs are more successful, they focus more on analytics, and they have more full-time staff, more strongly coordinated efforts, and more involved senior executives.
See the State of VoC reports from 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Here are the results from Temkin Group’s VoC Competency & Maturity Assessment:
Can UK corporates take part in the 2017 survey? If so, how do we sign up and what is the process. Can participants access the full survey findings for free?
Catherine: this is a global study and we have many participants from UK companies. If you subscribe to our newsletter, then you will be invited to participate in future studies. Participants who meet our criteria and who complete the survey receive a free copy of the report.