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name: voice-of-customer description: Use to design, run, and synthesize customer feedback programs tied to journey stages.

Voice of Customer System Skill

When to Use

• Planning journey discovery projects or validating hypotheses.
• Building continuous feedback loops (surveys, interviews, community, support mining).
• Translating VOC findings into prioritized journey actions.

Framework

1. Program Design – define objectives, personas, touchpoints, sample size, and incentives.
2. Channel Mix – select qualitative (interviews, live sessions) and quantitative (NPS, CES, product usage) data sources per stage.
3. Signal Processing – tag insights by emotion, friction type, segment, and impact.
4. Insight Packaging – create artifacts (quote boards, heatmaps, KPI overlays) mapped to journey maps.
5. Action Loop – pair each insight with a recommended experiment, owner, and expected metric lift.

Templates

• VOC research brief (question, method, sample, timeline, owner).
• Insight tagging spreadsheet with stage/persona labels.
• Signal-to-action tracker (insight → priority → owner → status).

Tips

• Rotate participants quarterly to avoid bias; maintain consent logs.
• Combine VOC with telemetry to validate scale of issues.
• Share short audio/video snippets to humanize data for stakeholders.

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