What is Disruption

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A product or event that changes consumer behaviour and interrupts the continuity of form evolution. Learn more in: Product Form Evolution

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Appearance of disturbances, problems or alternatives which interrupt the usual course of an event, activity or process. Learn more in: Re-Thinking Meat: How Climate Change Is Disrupting the Food Industry

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A disarrangement or confusing interface of events/activities. Learn more in: What Do Business Schools Expect From Aspirants During Recruitment?

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Inability of either or both parties in an employment relationship to comply with the contract in spite of willingness to do so due to divergent interpretations. It is also called inadvertent violation. Learn more in: Managing the New Psychological Contract

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Often associated to technology or innovation, this phenomenon can create also major changes in industry frontiers, business processes and business models. Learn more in: Strategic and Business-IT Alignment Under Digital Transformation: Towards New Insights?

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Anything that creates change in the normal operational behavior of the global higher education institution. Learn more in: Disruption and Innovation in Global Higher Education as Viewed Through the Lens of Complexity Theory

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A permutable arrangement of interference, disturbance, trouble, interruption, distraction, disorder, confusion, unruliness and fatal break in a service or the access to the technology required to access the service. Learn more in: Financial Fraud, Technology Disruption, and Cyber-Governance

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A problem or disturbance which interrupts a process, event, or activity. Learn more in: Disrupting Learning of Statistics: Using an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Create Smart Learning Designs

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A major disturbance or an interruption in the normal course or continuation of some activity, process, system, or event. Learn more in: Engineering Education: Towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Disturbances or problems that interrupt an event, activity, or process. Events, activities, or processes are often used or understood differently than they were at the beginning. Disruptive innovation, which is an artistic term coined by Clayton Christensen, describes the process by which a product or service is initially offered in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then moves relentlessly upward in the market, eventually displacing established competitors. Learn more in: Transhumanism and Innovative Leadership: A Question of Quality