The additional topics that Cloud Kicks should consider before framing the design challenge as a How Might We question are potential market size and supply chain costs, as these help evaluate the viability and feasibility of the design opportunity. Shareholder priorities and design team capabilities or business drivers and signals of success may not be relevant or important for framing the design challenge.

A team agreement is a tool that a strategy designer can recommend for the team to begin alignment. It is a document that defines the team's purpose, values, norms, roles, and expectations. It helps create a shared understanding and commitment among team members and foster a positive and productive team culture. Reference: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/create-a-team-agreement

Consumer Goods Cloud is a Salesforce product that helps consumer goods companies optimize in-store visits, run promotions, increase sales, and improve customer loyalty. It is designed for businesses that sell products through retail partners and want to enhance their relationships with them. Reference: https://www.salesforce.com/products/consumer-goods-cloud/overview/ For a business like Cloud Kicks looking to enhance brand loyalty, product awareness, and optimize in-store experiences, Consumer Goods Cloud is the recommended Salesforce product. It is designed specifically for the consumer goods industry to improve retail execution and drive more business through better in-store experiences, efficient route planning for sales reps, and promotion execution. Marketing Cloud is more suited for digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels, and Loyalty Cloud focuses on building customer loyalty programs, which doesn't directly address the need for optimizing in-store visits as Consumer Goods Cloud does.

In addition to the narrative, the designer should provide the strategic case including a breakdown of features and why they meet audience needs to create alignment. The strategic case is a way to explain how the new product vision aligns with the company's mission, values, goals, and capabilities. It also shows how the product features address user needs, pain points, motivations, and behaviors. This can help persuade internal stakeholders to support the new product vision by demonstrating its value proposition and relevance. Incentives may motivate stakeholders temporarily but they do not create lasting alignment or commitment. A roadmap may show how the new product vision will be implemented but it does not justify why it should be pursued.

The approach that the designer should focus on is to restate business goals and show how design could be used to de-risk exploration of this opportunity. This approach can help the designer align the new product vision with the executive stakeholders' expectations, needs, and priorities, and demonstrate how design methods and tools can help validate assumptions, identify risks, and test solutions in a saturated market. Making a presentation on design best practices or creating a clickable high fidelity prototype may not be enough to convince the executive stakeholders of the value proposition and feasibility of targeting a new market.