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disruptive technology |
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disruptive technologyA new technology that has a serious impact on the status quo and changes the way people have been dealing with something, perhaps for decades. Music CDs all but wiped out the phonograph industry within a few years, and digital cameras are destined to eliminate the film industry. The most disruptive technologies in history have been the telephone, the computer (and all of its offshoots) and the Internet. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In his book The Innovator's Dilemma, Professor Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School refers to "sustaining" technologies--the step-by-step changes that keep products gradually evolving--versus "disruptive" technologies, which radically change the way we think about a problem. The Defense Department's problems display a familiar pattern, which was first described in Christensen's 1997 book, "The Innovator's Dilemma. The "disruptive innovation theory," first described by Clayton Christensen in the 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma (see sidebar), holds that organizations have the best chance of creating new growth by bringing disruptive innovations into a marketplace. |
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