Radhika Dutt

Product Executive, Co-founder, Author

Radhika Dutt is the author of the upcoming book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. She is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded.

She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore’s financial regulator and central bank. She also teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern’s D’Amore McKim School of Business, and is an advisor to several startups.

Dutt co-founded Radical Product Thinking as a movement of leaders creating vision-driven change and is a frequent speaker at business events and conferences around the world. She serves on the board of the Association of Product Professionals.

She graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering, and speaks nine languages, currently learning her tenth.

The Art of Prioritization the Radical Product Thinking way

May 25, 2020

Most product leaders pick out prioritization as one of their hardest challenges – remote working only exacerbates this. Not only do you have to make difficult decisions, but you also have to persuade your team and stakeholders on your priorities… over Zoom. To experienced product leaders, priorities may at times seem obvious because you’ve developed an intuition for product decisions and priorities. How do you develop the same product intuition in your team? How do you make prioritization discussions more productive and less contentious?

In this talk, you’ll learn a powerful method and vocabulary that you can use across the organization to prioritize almost anything, from sales opportunities and strategic initiatives to tactical features in your sprint planning. As an added bonus, for Star Wars fans, you’ll feel like you’ve learned to use The Force and be ready to use it in your organization.

Radically rethinking OKRs: How OKRs may be harming your organization and what to do instead

May 26, 2021

Popularized by Google’s financial success, OKRs have been widely adopted by companies to communicate goals and measure progress. We’ve come to believe that OKRs and goal-setting are the key to scaling our products and companies.

In reality, most companies implementing OKRs see a series of unfortunate side effects, and several studies have confirmed how goal-setting can go wrong. In this interactive session by the author of the upcoming book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter, we’ll be talking about how you can get the same benefits of OKRs while avoiding unintended consequences. We’ll discuss radical ideas that challenge conventional wisdom, and you’ll walk away with practical tools to align your teams on the impact you want to create and measure progress along the way.