leap·frog·ging

economics & business: The strategic process by which a country, region, or company bypasses traditional, intermediate stages of growth or legacy systems to directly adopt advanced, next-generation innovations, thereby accelerating development or overtaking incumbent market leaders.

Example“Digital-first challenger banks achieved leapfrogging over traditional high-street banks by deploying cloud-native mobile applications, bypassing the massive, costly legacy mainframe systems that slowed down established institutions.”