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Posts related to creating or working with dashboards

Use case: VoC program for retail

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs have become an established path for retailers to deliver enhanced customer experiences.

Consumer behavior, nevertheless, is always changing. Retailers are rarely able to anticipate these behavioral changes or adapt quickly enough to preserve or grow their market share.

In 2018, a regional supermarket brand with over 800 hundred stores wanted to understand customer experience at every touchpoint in order to identify potential areas of customer frustration.

The company undertook a strategic Voice of the Customer (VoC) program with the aim of systematically and consistently capturing insights from the customer experience.

The program is still running. It comprises of around 23,000 surveys per month, completed by customers at various branches of the supermarket chain.

In retail, listening to the Voice of the Customer to identify the strengths and weaknesses of business is fundamental. Competition is fierce. Given that the scale of information to be analyzed is immense, the company decided to work with MeaningCloud to process the literal answers to the open-ended questions of the surveys, so they need not worry about the amount or the time needed to process them.
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Voice of the Employee Dashboard

Voice of the Employee gathers the needs, wishes, hopes, and preferences of all employees within an organization. The VoE takes into account both explicit needs, such as salaries, career, health, and retirement, as well as tacit needs such as job satisfaction and the respect of co-workers and supervisors. This post follows the line of Voice of the Customer in Excel: creating a dashboard. We are creating another dashboard, this time for the Voice of the Employee.

Text-based data sources are a key factor for any organization that wants to understand the “whys”.

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Voice of the Customer in Excel: creating a dashboard

Excel spreadsheets are still one of the most extended ways of working with big collections of data, especially among non-technical users. Two of our Vertical Packs, Voice of the Customer and Voice of the Employee, are particularly useful for typically non-technical teams, which can now carry out their analyses easily with our last Excel integration.

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the add-in provided in the Voice of the Customer Vertical Pack, how to carry out a VoC analysis, and how to work with its output by creating a dashboard like the one on the right. Working with the Voice of the Employee Pack would follow a similar pattern.

[This post was last updated in February 2019 to include the updated ontology.]

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A practical case

Let us imagine we work for a market research department or agency interested in analyzing the Insurance industry. Customer comments in forums and social networks constitute an extremely valuable source of spontaneous information about their opinions about insurance providers.
We are going to focus specifically on auto insurance reviews extracted from ConsumerAffairs, a website that collects reviews from several domains.

The reviews we are going to use have been extracted from the top five companies in the Auto Insurance section: for each one of them we’ve picked ten items. You can download here the Excel spreadsheet we will be working on. It contains a single sheet where we have included two columns: one with the selected reviews, and another with the name of the company they refer to.

As we have mentioned, for this tutorial we are going to use our Vertical Pack for Voice of the Customer analysis. Vertical Packs are a combination of preconfigured models or dictionaries, powerful APIs and specific add-ins for Excel that enable you to adapt text analytics to your domain with only one click. Just by registering at MeaningCloud, you have a 30-day trial for all Vertical Packs available. The trial starts the moment you first analyze a text, so users that have been using MeaningCloud for a while will also be able to try it out.

To get started, you need to register at MeaningCloud (if you haven’t already), request access to the Voice of the Customer pack and download and install the VoC Excel add-in on your computer. Here you can read a detailed step by step guide to the process.

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