A storyboard is a tool that should be used to facilitate and share the vision of a new patient experience. A storyboard is a visual narrative that illustrates the user’s journey with a product or service, using sketches, images, or text. It helps communicate the value proposition and key features of the solution, and how it addresses the user’s needs and goals. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/create-a-storyboard

The best approach to increase the desire for research-driven decisions among stakeholders who misunderstand and undervalue research-driven UX design is to align UX research goals with stakeholders’ goals, as this helps demonstrate the value and relevance of research for achieving business outcomes. Creating high-fidelity prototypes or strictly aligning to stakeholders’ business requirements may not address the root cause of the lack of desire for research.

One of the rules of facilitating a brainstorming session is to encourage participants to build on proposed ideas, rather than criticize or dismiss them. This fosters a collaborative and creative environment where ideas can be improved and refined. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/facilitate-a-brainstorming-session

Creating Jobs To Be Done is part of the define phase of the design thinking process. This phase involves synthesizing the insights from the empathize phase and framing the problem statement in a human-centered way. Jobs To Be Done are statements that describe what customers are trying to achieve or accomplish through a product or service. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/create-jobs-to-be-done

The best tool to grow and nurture cross-departmental collaboration is V2MOM with shared methods, as this helps align the teams around a common vision, values, methods, obstacles, and measures. A roadmap of cross-product features or an annual leadership summit may not be enough to foster ongoing collaboration and communication.

One way to increase the team’s psychological safety to encourage productive collaboration is to ask everyone to share a personal experience, as this helps build trust, empathy, and rapport among team members. Asking everyone their expected level of project involvement or introducing themselves via title and greatest success may not foster psychological safety, as they may create hierarchy, pressure, or competition.

The best recommendation to identify and remediate the issue of slow and unresponsive Lightning web components is to utilize the Lightning Usage App, which provides insights into how users interact with Lightning Experience and helps optimize performance and usability. Running the Salesforce Optimizer or creating a case with Salesforce support may not address the specific issue of Lightning web components.

Effort is a factor that should be considered to minimize cost and maximize value when prioritizing ideas or features. Effort refers to the amount of time, resources, or complexity required to implement a solution. It helps estimate the cost-benefit ratio of each solution, and select the ones that deliver the most value with the least effort. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/prioritize-ideas-with-a-priority-matrix

Solving for one, extending to many through a persona spectrum is an inclusive design tactic that helps solve problems for the broadest possible audience. It involves creating personas that represent different levels of ability, context, and preference, and designing solutions that meet the needs of the most extreme cases, which can benefit everyone else as well. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/solve-for-one-extend-to-many-through-a-persona-spectrum

Returning to customer research ensures that decisions are based on user needs and insights, which can help reconcile internal differences by focusing on what matters most to customers. This customer-centric approach can guide prioritization and reduce the risk of organizational paralysis by aligning features with user demands.

The technique that the designer should use to ensure the audience remains engaged is to ask open-ended questions to the audience to maintain their involvement. Open-ended questions are questions that require more than a yes or no answer, and invite the audience to share their thoughts, opinions, or feedback. Asking open-ended questions can help the designer capture the audience’s attention, interest, and curiosity, as well as encourage interaction and dialogue. Turning the camera off may reduce the visual connection and rapport with the audience. Dedicating half of the meeting time to answering questions may not be enough to keep the audience engaged throughout the presentation.

The best method to improve feasibility of a concept direction that involves sustainable materials is to run a cost benefit analysis, which is a quantitative way of comparing the costs and benefits of different alternatives and finding the optimal solution. Creating a functional prototype or reviewing and aligning with company V2MOM may not address the feasibility issue directly.

The core principles of the Jobs to Be Gone framework are customer-centric, solution agnostic, stable over time, and measurable outcomes, as this framework helps understand the customer’s specific goal or job, and the thought processes that would lead them to hire a product or service to complete the job. Customer-centric means focusing on the customer’s needs and desires, solution agnostic means not prescribing or implying any specific solution, stable over time means not changing with customer attributes or preferences, and measurable outcomes means having clear and quantifiable indicators of success.

Conducting customer interviews is a direct and effective method to ensure that sustainability messaging resonates with customers. Through these conversations, the strategy designer can gather insights into customer values and preferences, guiding the development of messaging that aligns with customer expectations and enhances the desirability of the brand's commitment to sustainable practices.

The designer should focus on exploring feasibility and opportunities for future innovation when engaging technical stakeholders. Feasibility refers to how possible or realistic it is to implement a solution, given the technical constraints or requirements. Opportunities for future innovation refer to the potential or possibilities for creating new or improved solutions, leveraging the latest technologies or trends. Both aspects help foster a collaborative and creative dialogue between the designer and the technical stakeholders, and ensure that the solution is both viable and desirable. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/engage-technical-stakeholders

A priority matrix is a method that helps stakeholders decide which ideas to build by evaluating them based on two criteria, such as impact and feasibility. It helps prioritize the most valuable and viable solutions and eliminate the ones that are not worth pursuing. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/prioritize-ideas-with-a-priority-matrix

A Priority Matrix is a tool used in decision-making to help stakeholders prioritize tasks or ideas based on their urgency and importance. For Cloud Kicks, facing a challenge with customer dissatisfaction due to long waiting periods, a Priority Matrix will help the team to visually plot the ideas based on their potential impact on solving the issue and the effort required to implement them. This method allows for a structured comparison of ideas, making it easier to decide which ones to build on.

Card sorting is a technique that should be used to co-design the website navigation menu with end users. Card sorting is a method that involves asking users to organize items into groups or categories, and label them according to their preferences. It helps understand how users think about the information architecture and structure of a website, and design a menu that is intuitive and user-friendly. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/conduct-a-card-sorting-session

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. References: 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.

These qualitative findings indicate desirability of the new offering. Desirability refers to how much customers want or need a product or service, and how it meets their expectations and emotions. It can be measured by observing customers’ behaviors and reactions, such as excitement, interest, engagement, satisfaction, or recommendation. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/measure-the-success-of-the-initiative

The Desirable, Feasible, Viable framework is essential for ensuring a new business model's success. It ensures the model is customer-centric (Desirable), technically and organizationally achievable (Feasible), and financially sustainable (Viable), aligning the innovation with customer needs, operational capabilities, and business objectives.

The most effective way a strategy designer could influence the stakeholders is to orient around outcomes that matter to them, such as business value, customer satisfaction, or social impact. This helps align the strategy with the stakeholders’ vision and priorities, and demonstrate the benefits and trade-offs of different solutions. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/influence-stakeholders-with-outcomes

 The project team should spend time affinity mapping, spotting patterns, and surfacing surprises, to identify key insights after conducting user research. This method involves grouping data points into themes or categories, finding connections or trends among them, and highlighting unexpected or surprising findings. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/identify-key-insights

The best focus for testing efforts to determine whether to produce a product at scale is desirability, viability, and feasibility, which are the three key dimensions of design thinking that evaluate whether a product is desirable for users, viable for business, and feasible for technology. Novelty, privacy, and potential to go viral or competitive advantage, impact, and own ability are not comprehensive enough to cover all aspects of design thinking.

The strategy designer should conduct an expert interview in consumer device engineering to determine whether or not to pursue this product idea. An expert interview is a way to gather information and insights from someone who has specialized knowledge or experience in a relevant domain. It can help validate assumptions, identify risks, and explore opportunities for innovation. Performing secondary research may not provide enough depth or specificity for this product idea. Hiring an engineer may be premature and costly at this stage.

The design team should present the information that challenges a stakeholder’s hypothesis in an insights workshop with plenty of time for group discussion. This helps create a safe and collaborative space where the stakeholder can ask questions, share feedback, and understand the research findings and implications. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/present-insights-to-stakeholders

A kickoff meeting can help align the project team before they begin working together by facilitating activities to gain an understanding of each others’ skills, communication styles, and expectations. This helps build trust, rapport, and collaboration among team members with different backgrounds and perspectives. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/facilitate-a-kickoff-meeting

The steps that should be taken to achieve the goal of creating vision statements using a collaborative, research-backed process are Gather, Envision, Plan. These steps involve gathering data and insights from research, envisioning possible future states based on insights, and planning how to communicate and execute the vision. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/create-vision-statements

The best way to gain alignment from a key decision maker who is neutral or detracting from a project is to set up a conversation with them to name the challenge and listen to their objections, as this shows respect and empathy and allows for mutual understanding and feedback. Asking the sponsor to speak to them on behalf of the project or emailing them reiterating project status may not address their concerns or motivations effectively.

 The purpose of an Impact & Effort matrix is to prioritize projects based on key goals outlined in project framing. An Impact & Effort matrix is a tool to evaluate and compare projects based on two criteria: the impact they have on achieving the desired outcomes, and the effort they require to implement. Projects that have high impact and low effort are usually prioritized, while projects that have low impact and high effort are usually deprioritized. An Impact & Effort matrix does not compare products based on predefined criteria or classify projects according to their level of urgency.

An impact ladder is a strategic tool used to map out the connection between short-term actions and long-term goals. It helps in visualizing how initial steps, such as reducing emissions in logistics, contribute to the overarching objective of achieving net-zero status, ensuring that each phase of the strategy builds towards the ultimate goal.

The purpose of building and testing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is to validate or invalidate the essential features of the product, that is, the features that deliver the core value proposition and solve the user’s problem. Testing an outline of all features and possibilities of the product or assessing essential features of the product with a large group of users are not suitable outcomes for an MVP, as they may introduce unnecessary complexity or bias.

The question that the team should use to prioritize and turn insights into design opportunities is “Why is this insight valuable?” This question can help the team evaluate the relevance, significance, and impact of each insight, and how it relates to the user needs, pain points, goals, and motivations. The question also helps the team frame the insights in terms of benefits and outcomes, rather than features or solutions. The other questions may be useful for assessing feasibility or viability, but they do not prioritize insights based on value.

A key objective for prototyping new ways of cross-departmental collaboration in a digital transformation effort is to create a single enterprise-wide digital governance model, as this ensures consistency, accountability, and quality across different departments. Having the final say in all intra-departmental decisions or unifying all organizational tech stacks under one platform are not realistic or desirable objectives.

Before framing the problem, the strategy designer should ask what problem(s) CK is trying to solve, rather than jumping to solutions or assumptions. This helps clarify the scope and context of the challenge and identify the root causes and effects of the issue. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/frame-challenges-with-how-might-we-statements

The best tool to explore the collaboration, structure, and processes that will be required to deliver a new customer experience with digital and environmental touchpoints is a service blueprint, as this helps illustrate how different actors, touchpoints, channels, activities, and resources interact and support each other in delivering the service. A journey map or an empathy map may not be able to capture the backstage aspects of service delivery.

Involving the customer in the presentation can demonstrate internal support and shared commitment to the project, helping to alleviate the lead's concerns. This collaboration can foster trust in the design thinking process and the project's potential impact, facilitating approval.

One of the initial steps to take when creating a program roadmap is to start with a phased approach, then address foundational items early, as this helps prioritize and sequence the work into manageable chunks and ensure that the essential requirements are met first. Developing a RACI diagram or creating a release plan may not be the initial steps, as they require more clarity and details on the scope and timeline of the program.

Analogous research is a type of research that involves looking at examples from other domains or industries that have similar challenges or goals as the design project. It helps generate unexpected ideas and increase empathy by exposing the design team to different perspectives and solutions. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/conduct-analogous-research

The strategy designer should recommend using In-App Guidance and investing in change management to aid the sales team in onboarding to Sales Cloud. In-App Guidance is a feature that allows creating prompts and walkthroughs within Salesforce to guide users through new features or processes. Change management is a process that involves planning, communicating, and supporting users through organizational changes, such as adopting new technologies or workflows. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-strategy-designer-certification-prep/use-in-app-guidance-and-invest-in-change-management

When a strategy designer creates an empathy map based on research insights, their deep understanding of the customer drives desirability as an outcome. Desirability is the degree to which a product or service meets or exceeds the expectations, needs, and desires of the customers. By creating an empathy map, a strategy designer can gain a holistic and empathetic view of the customer’s thoughts, feelings, actions, and pain points. This can help the designer create solutions that are more attractive, satisfying, and meaningful for the customers. Viability and feasibility are not driven by empathy maps, as they relate to the business and technical aspects of a solution.

Some safeguards that should be put in place to ensure the research is conducted ethically are a code of conduct, ethics training, and a research data handling policy. A code of conduct is a set of principles and guidelines that define ethical behavior and expectations for researchers and participants. Ethics training is a way to educate researchers on ethical issues and best practices in conducting research. A research data handling policy is a document that specifies how research data will be collected, stored, accessed, shared, analyzed, and disposed of in a secure and compliant manner. A customer journey map, research scenario, and a RAID log are tools for planning and documenting research activities, but they do not address ethical issues. A hypothesis, project plan, and financial reimbursement for users are elements of research design and execution, but they do not ensure ethical conduct.

One way the company can embed ethical use principles into its day to day work is by using Consequence Scanning, which is an agile practice that fits within an iterative development cycle and allows organizations to consider the potential consequences of their product or service on people, communities, and the planet. Consequence Scanning helps identify and mitigate potential harms or risks, and align the product or service with the organization’s values and culture. Quantitative research or journey mapping may not be sufficient or effective for embedding ethical use principles.