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Ep. 168: Radhika Dutt on ‘Radical Product Thinking’

Vinay Kumar

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Our guest today is the author of ‘Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter’, a book whose methodology is now being used in over 40 countries and has also been translated into Chinese and Japanese. She is an entrepreneur, speaker, consultant and product leader who has participated in five acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. Meet the one and only, the radical Radhika Dutt!    

An MIT graduate, Radhika works with organizations ranging from high-tech startups to multinationals on building radical products that create a fundamental change. Radhika has built products in a wide range of industries including broadcast, media and entertainment, telecom, advertising technology, government, consumer apps, robotics, and even wine. She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator). 

Radhika is working on her second book, ‘Escaping the Performance Trap: Why Goals and Targets Backfire and What Actually Works’.

[2:57s] Radhika’s genesis story

[10:14s] Radical Product Thinking – breaking it down

[16:56s] Applying Radical Product Thinking in today’s VUCA world

[23:45s] How can KPIs, OKRs and KRAs evolve with Radical Product Thinking

[30:36s] The methodology of Objectives Hypotheses & Learnings – OHLs 

[45:56s] Radhika’s vision for the near future and her upcoming book ‘Escaping the Performance Trap’

RWL: Read Radhika’s book ‘Radical Product Thinking’ 

Find out more about her work at https://rdutt.com/

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