How Journey Insights Hub improves product positioning and go-to-market strategy

Discover how customer feedback analysis helped a leading semiconductor manufacturer strengthen product positioning, refine messaging and improve go-to-market performance

Summary of the go-to-market case study

A leading semiconductor manufacturer in the gaming sector introduced a new laptop to the market. Following the initial market release, they used Journey Insights Hub to analyze 7,870 customer reviews (from diverse platforms like Reddit, Amazon and YouTube) and uncover the product insights needed to strengthen product positioning, improve competitive differentiation and optimize their go-to-market strategy.

Previously, they used analyst firms to sift through and analyze the data. They were skeptical about the results and wanted an unbiased perspective. 

Journey Insights Hub allowed them to...

• Reduce time and cost for their next GTM strategy
• Made their analytics team more effective and efficient
• Showed directly where their NPS score was being impacted

Business impact

• Speed-to-market: Journey Insights Hub reduced the time it took to see where direct impacts could be made to improve NPS
• Sharper competitive positioning: Journey Insights Hub identified opportunities to strengthen competitive positioning by revealing where customer sentiment differed from competing products and brands
• Improved data analyst value: Journey Insights Hub’s deep learning and auto-tagging functionality allowed their analysts to focus on analyzing data instead of organizing it
• Accurate NPS tracking: Journey Insights Hub’s ability to track changes in the market showed them exactly where they need to focus their efforts to improve their overall rating
• Quick comprehension of product insights: Data visualization and integration ensures the internal team is equipped with accurate insights for faster decision-making
• Informed, bias-free decision making: The non-biased nature of analytics instills a sense of confidence in decision-making processes, ensuring resources are managed and allocated with pinpoint accuracy
• Deep dive into CSAT scores: Ensures the ability to delve into how each specific driver influences the CSAT score and understand their interrelations for a more nuanced strategy approach
• Strategic vendor negotiations: Facilitates renegotiation of vendor contracts with a grounded understanding of Customer Experience (CX) performance metrics

See the entire experience

By connecting customer sentiment to product performance attributes, Journey Insights Hub helped the team validate and refine its product positioning strategy. These insights enabled marketing and product teams to align messaging with the features customers valued most.

Organizing the feedback

Categories set by the customer to instruct Journey Insights Hub on how to organize the 7,870 customer reviews (real life impact: this only took our customer two hours to train the model.)

• Features (USB, ports, HDMI, USB-C, jack, USB-A, webcam, camera, Bluetooth, speakers)
• System stability (driver, bios, update, crash, black screen, blue screen, restart, freezes, firmware, windows update)
• Display (display, panel, refresh rate, response time, monitor)
• Battery performance (battery, charging, charger, power supply)
• Shipping/logistics (packaging, logistics, delivery, delivery is fast)
• Acoustic performance (fan noise, noise, fan sound, sound of the fan, loud, sound, quiet)
• System design (handsome, beautiful, exquisite, really handsome, elegant, attractive, gorgeous, stylish)
• Thermal performance (temps, temperature, degrees, CPU temperature, thermal, overheating, throttling, not hot)
• System performance (performance, performs, ability, CPU, GPU, frames, smooth)

Journey Insights Hub made their analyst team more effective and efficient. Management could now evaluate, with certainty, where to prioritize their investments for maximum impact.

The results

Journey Insights Hub debunked several findings of previous analysts, presenting a bias-free narrative. It revealed clear paths to delivering a product experience that meets and exceeds customer and internal team expectations. 

The customer insights generated by Journey Insights Hub enabled stronger product positioning, deeper competitive analysis and more informed go-to-market decisions. 

And the Product Experience Manager only needed two hours of training to train the respective models.

High-level overview:

• System stability was the lowest rated sentiment
• System design was the highest rated sentiment
• 7,870 total reviews analyzed
• 2 hours of total training
• 4.463 CSAT score overall average

Tangible ROI of Journey Insights Hub

• Increased percentage of features released that tie back to customer feedback, from 10% to 20% in the first year
• Impact of data in speed to market. As the velocity of features released increased, they saw 15% YoY reduction in negative NPS commentary about the product experience
• Deepened customer engagement in feedback. We saw a +9-point increase in NPS YTD

How Cemantica can help you

Journey Insights Hub is part of Cemantica’s Journey Value Management Platform as a Journey Value Booster. 

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