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Leading Change through Radical Product Thinking

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Radhika Dutt

Radhika is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that create a fundamental change.

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.

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

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Radical Product Thinking

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The Radical Product Thinking (RPT) book offers a compelling antidote to short-term thinking so prevalent in product development. Through insightful and refreshing examples from around the world, the book guides readers through through the five elements of the methodology (Vision, Strategy, Prioritization, Execution, and Culture) to develop a clear process for achieving their desired change, incorporating it into daily activities, and turning RPT skills into muscle memory.

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The Radical Product Toolkit is a practical framework that you can use by yourself or with your team. The worksheets guide you through the RPT methodology making it easier to craft a compelling vision for your product, a product strategy to translate your vision into actionable steps, a rubric to evaluate your priorities, and a plan to translate the above into activities and metrics that guide execution.

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Show Notes

Radhika’s background and early experiences in building Products [02:50]

On why current Product building processes don’t work [06:03]

On Product Diseases and how they affect Product Development? [12:24]

How to set the right Product Vision [13:59]

Tesla Model 3 vs. Chevy Bolt – Differences in Product Vision when designing and building Electric Vehicles [17:28]

What are the bottlenecks to Vision-driven Thinking at various firms ? [22:25]

Components of a Country-as-a-Product and Singapore as a case [24:39]

How can a Services company think like a Product company ? [30:01]

How to reduce Disconnected Thinking within Product Groups ? [32:54]

How to think about Product Vision like a Source Code [37:40]

How to think about Vision Statements as APIs for Individual Product Teams [39:11]

Examples of Radical Product Thinking from the Developing World [41:48]

Importance of Ethics and Digital Pollution in Product Building [47:09]

Responses to Digital Pollution created by Products [52:46]

Books that have influenced Radhika’s thinking[56:09]

What the word ‘successful’ means to Radhika [57:03]

Radhika’s invitees to her Dream Dinner [59:32]

The five or six pieces of advice Radhika would give an 18 year old studying at University today [1:00:15]

The best piece of advice Radhika has ever received [01:01:07]

What is something Radhika believes in that nobody else agrees with her on? [01:01:55]

Who is somebody as a guest who Radhika would like to see on ContraMinds [01:02:53]

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Leading Change through Radical Product Thinking

Pooja Jauhari is the former Group CEO of VMLY&R India, and former CEO of The Glitch. Over her two-decade-long career, Pooja has worked with some of the biggest brands in the country and the world, and introduced powerful campaigns to society.

Pooja has worked with some brilliant people and has held important responsibilities over the past 20 years. She is the Founder of Seat At The Table, an unbiased investment and advisory initiative to invest in companies and people that are built on a purpose.

Prior to her appointment in the VMLY&R network, Pooja was the CEO of The Glitch, a high-performance creative company that has worked hard to create a workspace that is gender blind, inclusive and progressive. The Glitch was acquired by WPP, the world’s largest marketing communications company in 2017, and integrated into the VMLY&R network within WPP in 2020.

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