They were faced with disruption to their plans and essentially told to deal with it, which is similar to the way airlines inform me that my flight has been cancelled "for technical reasons", or when they tell me they've "lost" my luggage.
However Christensen also predicts incumbents, when faced with disruption, overwhelmingly dismiss it, downplay its encroachment and resort to justifying their industry domination as a moral imperative.
But in 1939, faced with the disruption of vital oil supplies and the loss of strategic bases should Arab states side with the Axis, the British reversed their policy, bringing Jewish immigration virtually to a halt.
"When you're faced with digital disruption you can certainly spend a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of resources trying to sue everyone and to stop them from using this new technology," said Michael Weinberg, Vice President of Public Knowledge, a free-internet advocacy group.
Faced with the disruptions of government shut-downs or defaults, progressives should all urge their conservative friends to reread Milton Friedman.
Qi et al. (2004) investigated a supplier retailer SC faced with the demand disruption during the planning horizon.
Ports must re-examine the overall philosophy that governs their entire operation, so when they are faced with the next disruption, they can recover far more quickly and the impact will be minimized.
Alongside greater investment in public higher education, on-the-job vocational training is essential to creating workforce opportunities not only in a global economy, but, more importantly, when faced with the perpetual disruptions of digital capitalism.
This is how the upbeat new apocalyptic book by science writer Annalee Newitz, the lead editor of the engaging tech/science/entertainment Web site io9, summarizes the strategies that could allow the human species to persist if faced with the kind of epic disruptions to Earth's environment that have periodically erased the majority of living things.
So when faced with the risk of violence or serious disruption that cannot be avoided or mitigated, universities are sometimes left with no choice but to cancel events.
Faced with resistance from their arrogant despot, Moses and the Israelites escalate their pressure by deploying a set of mass disruptions that bring the country -- and its economy -- to a halt.
