Pankaj Deshpande

 What is Disruptive Digital Technology? Disruptive digital technology is an innovation that disrupts and supersedes the existing technology, thereby significantly altering the pattern of the operations of industries, business enterprises, or consumer behavior with its superior attributes. This term disruptive technology was defined and popularized by Clayton M Christensen in 1997. History has witnessed the evolution of disruptive technologies from time to time. Think of how the intervention of digital imaging displaced the conventional Kodak films. Likewise, economies get disrupted by such innovations and tend to adapt and evolve in due course. The change is inevitable. Technologies keep changing, so is our way of life.  Disruptive digital technologies for tomorrow: Disruptive digital technology is transforming every industry. Microsensors, ‘smart’ gadgets, A.I., nanomaterials, and cloud computing are innovative technologies transforming the world. Let’s take a look at five di...

Technology has the power to completely alter the course of the future. But have you ever thought about what technology would be called whose introduction significantly affects the working and functions of a market or even an industry? Such technology or type of innovation is referred to as disruptive innovation.  Disruptive innovation assumes an extremely important role in the innovation framework of an organization. Here are two examples of how disruptive innovation has changed the course of business over time:  Internet: The biggest example of disruptive innovation that is ever known is the Internet. The company that has modified itself to be tech-savvy over time and adopt Internet usage is far more successful than those who did not adapt to the Internet.  Artificial Intelligence:  Artificial intelligence is another example of disruptive innovation that has modified how an enterprise carries out its functioning. Large sets of data which is unstructured could now b...