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Innovative Product Launch

Innovative Product Launch

Your company is working on an innovative product, which is expected to be ready for launch in next three months. You have already spent $10mn so far and another $2mn is required to complete this project.
A new development has taken place. Only yesterday, you have come to know that your competitor is ready to launch a similar innovative product by next month. This product is better, packed with good features and is also less expensive than your product.
You need to decide whether to continue with the project and release $2mn budget for this project. What will you do as CEO?
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The mistakes we make in our everyday life

• We are hardwired to make these mistakes • Few biases are simply evolutionary • These errors affect all of us including the bright ones • Experience is just not enough to overcome • but expertise is required to recognize and overcome

Few of biases as below · Anchoring - When an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information during decision making · Fixed pie - When we assume that our interests conflict with the other party's interests and we play adversarial · Framing - When we decide on our options differently when the options are presented with positive or negative connotations · Vividness – When we pay attention to strong features at the expense of less, that could be more impactful · Over confidence – When our subjective confidence is greater than the objective accuracy · Escalation – When initial decision is followed up with an irrational decision to justify the initial decision

Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective