disruptive
English edit
Etymology edit
disrupt + -ive. In the business sense popularized by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, see 1995 citation.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/, /dɪzˈɹʌptɪv/, /dɪzˈɹʊptɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/
- Hyphenation: dis‧rup‧tive
Adjective edit
disruptive (comparative more disruptive, superlative most disruptive)
- Causing disruption or unrest.
- Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
- (business) Causing major change, as in a market.
- disruptive technologies
- 1995 January–February, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton M. Christensen, “Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave”, in Harvard Business Review[1]:
- Each time a disruptive technology emerged, between one-half and two-thirds of the established manufacturers failed to introduce models employing the new architecture—in stark contrast to their timely launches of critical sustaining technologies.
- 2005, Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide, page 222:
- […] companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.
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causing disrupt or unrest
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Further reading edit
- disruptive innovation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- disruptive selection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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disruptive
- inflection of disruptiv: