Creative Destruction
A concept from Joseph Schumpeter: new products, technologies and business models emerge by making the old ones obsolete, and that churn is what drives economic growth.
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In practice
The disruption is uncomfortable, but it is where growth comes from. A company that will not cannibalize itself usually gets cannibalized by someone else; the question is not whether it happens, but who does it.