Sentence examples for sustaining technologies from inspiring English sources

There are what he calls sustaining technologies, which merely improve existing products or services, and disruptive technologies, which completely change the nature of a market or business.

In his recent book "The Innovator's Dilemma", Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School makes the distinction between "sustaining" technologies, which deliver improved product performance, and "disruptive" ones, which initially result in worse performance.

In that and later work he distinguishes sustaining technologies that make incremental improvements of a company's sales leaders from two kinds of disruptive technologies.

We have shown that about a quarter of survivors at Day 28 will still have a need for on-going support from life sustaining technologies in an ICU (POD).

In contrast to "sustaining" technologies, which provide incremental improvements to the performance and outcomes of existing technologies, disruptive innovations replace existing processes and eventually change the face of the market in unexpected ways.

Hospitals, by virtue of their size, associated overhead, and their large investments in the latest sustaining technologies, are similarly wary of disruptive innovations, because they may threaten their long-term financial viability.

For discount brokers like Charles Schwab, the Internet was a "sustaining" technology, he said, because it let them perform their existing business more efficiently.

I find the term 'technosphere' neither appropriate nor accurate...It makes it appear that technology is the defining element of human alteration of the Earth system," Ellis said, adding that "humans and societies create and sustain technologies, not the other way around – though of course there is a tight coupling of societies with technologies".

As developing DIY solutions may challenge users to develop technological proficiency, doing so could promote positive feelings of mastery and self-efficacy [ 13], as well as reflective learning and technology adoption at one's own pace, two central principles of the "Slow Design" philosophy that aims to achieve more meaningful and sustained technology use [ 58, 59].

Although questions about withholding and withdrawing advanced life-sustaining technologies is a frequent theme, it is a topic that is less than relevant when so many patients in the region do not have access to basic care.

We define POD as the persistence of organ dysfunction requiring life-sustaining technologies and it is present when a patient has an ongoing requirement for vasopressors, dialysis, or mechanical ventilation at the outcome assessments time points.