>> >> Your point is... ? What's the basic difference in meaning between >> disrupt, disrupting, and disruptive? They all mean the same thing to >> me, except for how they fit into a sentence grammatically. > > They may all mean the same thing to you, but they don't to the rest of the > world. > > B
>From wikipedia: "A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in a new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market. In contrast to disruptive innovation, a sustaining innovation does not create new markets or value networks but rather only evolves existing ones with better value, allowing the firms within to compete against each other's sustaining improvements. Sustaining innovations may be either "discontinuous"[1] (i.e. "transformational" or "revolutionary") or "continuous" (i.e. "evolutionary"). The term "disruptive technology" has been widely used as a synonym of "disruptive innovation..." That's basically what I believed they were conveying, but I'd argue it's not the first thought that comes to mind. I guess since they had a huge chance of disruptive innovation with the advent of digital imaging and blew it, they're going to try again. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
