At the same time, a networked technology provides a powerful incentive to adopt sustaining technologies at the expense of disruptive ones.

Christensen's distinction between the disruptive and the sustaining reflects a long-recognised dilemma of corporate strategists—whether to go for the big bang change or whether to shuffle along ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. The concept of disruptive technology and its potential for predicting winners and losers in the semiconductor industry was explored by a panel of business and technology gurus ...

And if a company is prepared to deal only with “sustaining technologies,” or technologies that improve product performance, and not disruptive technologies, it can fail.

My youngest son Noel thought an example of disruptive technology was when someone answers a cellphone while in the middle of another conversation. He isn’t totally wrong, but for the purpose of this ...

Citing historical precedents from other industries for comparison, the authors argue that the rotation models currently in place in many schools (where students switch between online and face-to-face ...

Disruptive technologies are dismissed as toys because when they are first launched they “undershoot” user needs. This does not mean every product that looks like a toy will turn out to be the ...