disruptive

adj

Etymology: From disrupt + -ive. In the business sense popularized by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, see 1995 citation.

1. Causing disruption or unrest.

   “Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.”

2. Causing major change, as in a market.

   “disruptive technologies”

   “Each time a disruptive technology emerged, between one-half and two-thirds of the established manufacturers failed to introduce models employing the new architecture—in stark contrast to their timely launches of critical sustaining technologies.”