R. Dutt is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. Dutt advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that create a fundamental change instead of optimizing the status quo. She also teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Dutt cofounded 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 graduated from MIT with a bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and speaks nine languages, currently learning her tenth.
“Dutt’s powerful methodology offers a step-by-step approach for
building successful products that doubles as a guide to infusing
meaning in everyday work and packing purpose into every
organization. This book belongs on the shelf of every leader and
innovator.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive, When, and To Sell Is Human
“In Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating
Smarter, Radhika Dutt offers a compelling and important antidote to
the short-term thinking so prevalent in product design, and
especially in redesign. She highlights how tinkering with
established products and ignoring opportunities in large-scale
product reinvention in favor of immediate financial performance is
often a recipe for longer-term product misalignment and
irrelevance. The book’s concepts are explained well, and the
examples are helpful and illuminating. A book whose message is both
timely and timeless.”
—David Schmittlein, John C. Head III Dean and Professor of
Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
“Radhika has written an insightful book on how you can change the
world around you through your products. She offers refreshing
perspectives on how a purpose-driven approach can make products
that are truly transformative. Anyone making a product—from
business leaders to entrepreneurs to policymakers—will find this
book a useful guide.”
—Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore
“Radhika Dutt offers a great methodical process for radical product
innovation so you can avoid the trap of making incremental
optimizations that lead to local, myopic maxima. If you are using
Agile-like methodologies to harness the power of iterations and
incremental development, you need Radical Product Thinking to stay
mission driven.”
—Giorgos Zacharia, President, KAYAK
“Radhika Dutt hits the nail on the head with Radical Product
Thinking because what drives our brightest young talent to join one
company over another is often not money but a powerful vision that
guides every project in the organization. This is a book for our
times that will help managers not only to compete for talent but
also to leapfrog competitors by creating novel products that
capture customer attention and inspire.”
—Fernando F. Suarez, PhD, Jean C. Tempel Professor of
Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Chair, Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Group,Northeastern University
"In Radical Product Thinking R. Dutt has provided a thoughtful new
perspective on innovation and entrepreneurship that should help
leaders take a vision-driven approach that can more effectively and
consistently impact the world in the ways that they intend."
—ClearPurpose
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