disruptive tech
Market paradigm shifter
Disruptive tech is short for disruptive technology—an innovation that fundamentally changes how an industry or market operates, often displacing established products or practices.
The term comes from business theory and typically describes technologies that start small but eventually overtake incumbents: The smartphone was disruptive tech that killed the flip phone.
Sometimes used loosely for any new technology generating buzz.
- innovationCreating something original
- startupNew business enterprise
- Silicon ValleyBay Area tech corridor
- creative destructionInnovation displacing the obsolete
- breakthroughSudden important advance
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disruptive techcontinuous improvement
Incremental ongoing enhancement
refinement · optimization · kaizen · enhancement · upgrade
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