The complete guide to the Kano model
  • The complete guide to the Kano model
  • Why I wrote this guide
  • A short note on terms used
  • The value of the Kano model
  • The Kano model in a nutshell
  • Step-by-step guide to a Kano study
    • First rule of a Kano study
    • Gathering features
    • Designing your Kano survey
      • The art of formulating good questions
      • More on questions
      • Wording the answers
      • Test your survey
    • Administering your Kano survey
      • In person or online?
      • Selecting survey participants
      • Survey layout
    • Analysing the results of your Kano study
      • Classic Kano survey analysis
      • Continuous analysis
      • Validity and reliability
  • Applying your Kano study results
    • Prioritizing features
      • Prioritising by Kano category
      • Prioritising within categories
      • Prioritising by the value of a feature's presence and the cost of its absence
    • The product development lif
      • Understanding Kano categories to make the right decisions
      • Removing features
      • Identifying areas of improvement
      • The under-utilisation of the Reverse category
      • Disrupting conventions
    • Uncovering customer segments
    • Tracking the life cycle of customer attitudes and product features
      • The life cycle of successful product features
      • Other patterns
      • Customer satisfaction over time
    • Product communication
    • Organisational benefits
      • Objective decision making
      • Product process
      • Resource allocation
    • When not to use the Kano method
  • History of the Kano model
    • Genesis of the Kano model
    • Extensions to the Kano model
    • alternative-kano-methods
    • kano-model-critique
  • Appendices
    • appendix-i-answer-labels
    • appendix-ii-bibliography
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  1. Step-by-step guide to a Kano study

Analysing the results of your Kano study

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Over the past 30 years, a lot of have been developed and tested in an attempt to make it a purely quantitative method.

In my experience, the original lookup table analysis covers most if not all of your needs. The important thing to remember is that what you’re measuring is the customer’s subjective perception of value. The Kano method is not a purely quantitative method. Trying to make it so is futile. Understanding customers is at least as much of an art as it is a science.

I also believe that many attempts to make more sense of the method are based on the of the Must-be Natural and Acceptable types of answers.

If you take care that your survey is in line with the , the original analysis method will yield great results.

This does not mean the results will be unequivocal. But with a thorough understanding of the Kano method you will be able interpret that ambiguity and use it as a guide for further exploration.

Don't try and make sense of the outcome of your Kano study by trying out all the different alternative analysis methods. If you didn't take the time to before you administered it, the results will not make sense. Trying out all the different analysis methods will not your problem.

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