Case file
Pro-Innovation Bias
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The charge
Pro-innovation bias is assuming a new technology or process is better simply because it is new.
How it operates
Novelty, status, and progress narratives make tradeoffs and failure modes easier to overlook.
Logged incidents
- Incident 01
A company deploys generative AI in support without testing error costs.
- Incident 02
A school adopts a shiny platform because it feels modern.
- Incident 03
A CTO replaces a stable stack with trendier tools that deliver no user benefit.
What to watch for
Ask: If this were old tech, would I still adopt it on the same evidence?
Recommended action
Use stage-gate pilots with kill criteria and compare against the current baseline.
Known associates
- Telescoping EffectTelescoping effect is misremembering when past events happened, often pulling distant events closer and…
- Rosy RetrospectionRosy retrospection is remembering past experiences as better than they felt at the time.
- Hindsight BiasHindsight bias is the tendency to feel, after an outcome is known, that it was predictable all along.
- Outcome BiasOutcome bias is judging the quality of a decision mainly by its result instead of by the information and…
- Moral LuckMoral luck is judging people differently for similar choices because luck changed the eventual outcome.
- DeclinismDeclinism is seeing the past as better than it was and the future as likely worse than it will be.
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