Definition of "disruptive" []

• Relating to, causing, or produced by disruption. (adjective)

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• "These and other characteristics are discussed in a new book by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen the latter the father of the term "disruptive technology" The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators."
• ""These days, market futurists and business wonks rarely have a meaningful economics discussion without using the term 'disruptive technology,'" observed McKay Coppins in Newsweek magazine last year."
• "Whereas the word disruptive might generally be assumed as a negative, here it means something else."