The phrase "a point of inflection" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in mathematical contexts to describe a point on a curve where the curvature changes sign, but it can also be used metaphorically to indicate a significant change in a situation or development.
Example: "The company's decision to pivot its business model marked a point of inflection in its growth trajectory."
Alternatives: "turning point" or "critical juncture".
If you don't think you're at a point of inflection, someone else, somewhere in the world will inflect your business for you.
Such a point is called a point of inflection.
"We may not be too far from a point of inflection," Fayyad said to me.
The way you tell it is that we're at a point of inflection: that we're on the cusp of perhaps the greatest change for the human race ever?
Census 2011 is perhaps an indication that the country has reached a point of inflection"; and in the worst-affected areas, sex ratios are becoming less distorted.
A point of inflection, it explains, is a point on a curve at which the curvature or concavity changes sign from plus to minus (or vice versa).
As Kate Losse points out in her excellent primer, a notable point of inflection in the selfie's recent meteoric rise was the addition of a front-facing camera to the iPhone 4. A selfie doesn't even have to be of one's face; my colleague Emily Greenhouse described Anthony Weiner as "a distributor of below-the-waist selfies".
Jonathan Zittrain, an associate professor at Harvard Law School, said the significance of the deal between Sharman Networks and Tiscali is likely to be more a cultural one than a legal one, noting that "all hands to this conflict recognize we're at a cultural point of inflection".
Per my earlier article, "Accelerating Through a Strategic Point of Inflection," invest to be best-in-class at one of design, production, delivery or service.
This conversation, as Alexia noted when we discussed this via text and email, brings us to a reasoned point of inflection in the conversation.
Third, based on visual inspection of the plotted income-mortality hazard ratios we identify median income level as a critical point of inflection for outcomes where substantial non-linear associations were found.
