Customer Needs Assessment Understand what your customer is looking for

Do you know what your customer needs?

When you can identify and understand a customer’s needs, you are better positioned to design the right products, and craft the right positioning and messaging to address those needs. You can more precisely understand your customers’ needs using the Customer Needs Assessment solution from Hanover Research.

We identify key elements of the customer experience, including pain points, challenges, essential attributes, and purchasing behaviors in order to help you craft a winning customer value proposition.

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Your customers have needs. Do you know what they are?

Empathize

Gain valuable insight into the motivations and pain points of your customers.

Solve

Communicate how your products address customer challenges and needs.

Optimize

Shape your sales strategy around identified customer purchase behaviors.

How it works: Customer Needs Assessment

Hanover Research uses both quantitative survey and qualitative research to provide data related to the Customer Needs assessment, helping you identify, address, and satisfy your customers’ needs.

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Survey

Hanover Research designs, fields, and analyzes a survey to gather customer feedback on their wants and identify if their needs are being met by you or a competitor.

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Qualitative Analysis

Hanover Research follows up with a focus group or in-depth interviews that delve into the survey findings, discovering key motivations behind the need for certain products or services.

POWERED BY Rapid Insights

Custom survey research, up 
to 4x faster

Customer Needs Assessments are delivered through Rapid Insights, Hanover’s proprietary AI-powered analysis platform. Our experts design the study and guide the AI to deliver faster, decision-ready results without compromising rigor. Outputs exceed 99% accuracy, with findings available in as little as 24 hours depending on scope.
Speed
4
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Up to 4x faster analysis — 
with interactive results within 
24 hours.

Rigor
99%
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Back-tested accuracy against Hanover’s research catalog.

Human-LED

Expert-designed studies with analyst oversight where it 
matters most.

McCall Farms Turns Consumer Questions into Confident Brand Decisions

“No matter how familiar you are with the business, no one person’s instinct is going to be able to make the right decisions all of the time. You have to hear from your consumer to understand what they’re looking for and make sure that you’re meeting their needs, or they’re going to find a different company that is.”

— Brian Hodges, Brand Manager

Make decisions with confidence, not guesswork

Hanover Research provides high quality, custom research and analytics through a cost-effective model that helps clients in the corporate, education, and healthcare sectors make informed decisions, identify and seize opportunities, and heighten their effectiveness.

Flexible

Ongoing research agenda adapts with your organization’s needs

Expert

200+ analysts with advanced research expertise

Efficient

Annual, fixed-fee model delivers shared costs and benefits

Dedicated

Exclusive account and research teams ensure strategic partnership

Put the power of our Customer Needs Assessment solution to work