Focus Groups
Design
Execution
For over 28 years, IMPACTure has been a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading organizations, delivering expertly designed focus groups that drive real results. We are widely recognized for our innovative approach to focus group design and execution, partnering closely with product development teams to create powerful, insight-driven questions that uncover what customers truly want.
At IMPACTure, we believe that the greatest impact comes from building capability within your organization. That’s why our process is designed not only to deliver immediate insights but also to equip your team with the tools, techniques, and confidence to run focus groups independently. We empower your teams to "learn to fish," ensuring sustainable success long after our engagement ends.
Our unique approach to focus group design has gained significant attention, leading to invitations to publish articles on our methodology. We specialize in helping companies rapidly develop detailed product and service specifications — providing design and engineering teams with an extraordinary depth of customer insight to create products that excite and captivate their markets.
When you partner with IMPACTure, you're not just getting research — you're getting a strategic advantage.
Once the focus group questions have been thoughtfully designed, the customer engagement phase is both efficient and impactful, typically requiring only half a day to complete. Through our experience, we’ve found that customers are more than willing to dedicate 4–5 hours of their time to participate in the process.
During these sessions, participants provide valuable insights through in-depth discussions and carefully crafted questions. Their responses are then meticulously analyzed—“scrubbed,” categorized, and organized into relevant groups to ensure no key detail is overlooked.
Following this analysis, we facilitate a collaborative prioritization process where each customer need is evaluated and ranked based on its importance. This structured approach not only captures critical customer feedback but also delivers clear, actionable priorities that can guide your team’s product or service development initiatives.
By the end of the session, you gain a comprehensive understanding of what truly matters to your customers—enabling you to make informed decisions that drive innovation and create lasting value.
Collecting: the Voice of the Customer (VOC)
One of the most critical and challenging aspects of organizational success is knowing what the customer really wants. IMPACTure assists organizations in the process of collecting the needs of their customers in an unbiased and scientific method.
Our methodology is a comprehensive language processing system, designed to identify the "Voice of the Customer" at its most basic level. One of the keys to getting good customer data is to insure that the customer is giving you his or her true needs, and not solutions to your product or service challenges.
Our system involves the following steps.
Step 1. - Interviewing
Each customer is interviewed one-on-one in in-depth sessions. Interviews are conducted with communication techniques guaranteed to gather information that is unbiased and clear. We insure that the information is not generalized, deleted or distorted. All interviews are tape recorded and/or video taped to insure accuracy and are then transcribed verbatim.
Step 2. - Language Processing
The transcripts are analyzed to extract key concepts and phrases. Quality characteristics from phrases and concepts are determined from the data. The data are then formally classified.
Step 3. - Theme Analysis
Once the data has been documented, additional analysis is conducted to identify and group re-occurring themes.
Step 4. - Determining Importance Ratings.
Focus groups or paper and pencil surveys are then conducted with customers. Customers rate the importance of their needs using a 100 point scale to insure a robust ratio analysis of the data collected. Customers also rate the competition on how well they are meeting the identified needs.
Step 5. - Begin The Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Process
QFD takes the customer's feedback and further analyzes with in connection with the organization's ability to meet those customer needs. With this new understanding of the true market, it's time to begin the design phase. The organization is now ready to take the needs of their customers and begin the process of identifying how they will meet those needs in the products and services they provide.
It is now time to begin working in the first matrix in a QFD process, The House of Quality.
What we do...
Organizational development is the art of creating a vision and all the supporting system's that make that vision a reality. Or, we apply the same processes to businesses that need positive change.
Organizational development (OD) focuses on improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency through planned interventions. It involves strategies, processes, and activities aimed at fostering positive organizational change.
OD typically addresses aspects such as leadership development, team dynamics, culture enhancement, and structural improvements within an organization. Its goal is to enhance the organization's capacity to adapt to market changes, improve employee satisfaction, and achieve overall strategic objectives.
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