Kano Model

What is the Kano Model?

The Kano Model is an insightful way of understanding and categorizing 5 types of Customer Requirements (or potential features) for new products and services.

It was created in the early 80’s by Japan’s professor Noriaki Kano, but continues today to be an essential tool for all organizations independent of industry or size. The main purpose of the Kano Model is:

To communicate 5 universal categories of customer requirements that all product and service developers need to be aware of in order to remain competitive.

·         To show how each of these 5 universal categories can influence satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

·         To show how 2 of the categories add value and 2 of the categories detract from value, and 1 of the categories creates new value.

·         To help organizations understand their customer needs better than their customers understand their own needs.

·         To provide a mechanism to help organizations understand and classify all potential customer requirements or features into these 5 categories so they can prioritize development efforts on the things that most influence satisfaction and loyalty. This is done by the Kano Survey, or sometimes called a Kano Analysis.

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