Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the rocket domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /var/www/practical-tips.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the soledad domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /var/www/practical-tips.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114
What is disruption? Simply explained! - Practical Tips

What is disruption? Simply explained!

by Mike

You may have heard or read the term ‘disruption’ in connection with new technologies. We reveal to you the meaning behind the term.

Disruption: This is what the term means

In common parlance, the word ‘disruption’ is used to refer to a serious change. The term comes from English, where it means something like disruption, interruption or even shaking.

  • In German, the term is often used in connection with economic issues and means that a previously dominant technology is displaced from the market by a new one.
  • But not only technologies, but also systems, ways of thinking and procedures, services or products can be affected by such a drastic change.
  • Disruptive technologies are when an innovation is so radical that it challenges and ends the previously unchallenged supremacy of a product or technology.
  • A disruptive service would be, for example, the online platform Airbnb, whose innovative way of booking and renting accommodation has triggered existential fears in the hotel industry in many places.
  • Also with a view to Amazon, one can speak of a disruptive potential: With fast delivery times, free shipping and an almost endless range of different products, the company poses a threat to analogue trade.
  • Examples of disruptions from the past are DVDs, flat screens or digital cameras: DVDs have displaced the VHS, flat screens the tube TV, and digital cameras have banished analogue photography to the darkrooms of connoisseurs.

Related Articles

Leave a Comment