Abstract
Socio-ecologic, socio-economic, and socio-technical transitions are opportunities that require fundamental changes in the system. These will encounter matters associated with security, service adoption by end-users, infrastructure and availability. The purpose of this study is to examine and overcome the risks to take advantage of opportunities through the novel Risky-Opportunity Analysis Method (ROAM). A novel quantitative method is designed to determine when, after making some changes, the risks become acceptable so that the opportunity does not deviate from the objectives. The approach provided a quantitative evaluation of the possible changes in parallel with digitization, towards providing a green Service Supply Chain (SSC). The result of ROAM shows that the most cost-effective change to increase the resilience of the system is a solution (SMS) which is different from that identified by a TOPSIS multi-criteria method. Real-word decisions in change management should tackle the complexity of systems and uncertainty of events during and after transition through a careful analysis of the alternatives. A case-study was carried out to evaluate the alternatives of an ancillary service in the Payment Service Providers (PSP). The comparison of the ROAM results with the traditional TOPSIS of the case-study unveils the priority of the ROAM in practice when the alternatives are Risky-Opportunities. The existing risk assessment tools do not take advantage of risky opportunities. To this aim, the current article introduces the term Risky-Opportunity, and two indexes—Stress and Strain—of the alternatives that are designed to be employed in the new quantitative ROAM approach.
Highlights
Innovation and change are the foundations of sustainable development and contribute to creating a resilient future
An unstructured interview was performed in the form of an in-depth interview according to the method described by Ritchie et al (2003) to collect general information about the critical service
Since RO2A1 has higher Stress, we focus on the transition from this alternative towards RO1A1 and RO1A3
Summary
Innovation and change are the foundations of sustainable development and contribute to creating a resilient future. To this aim, it is crucial to consider a risk-based approach to carry out transformation in real-world complex systems (Holton 2020; Waddock et al 2015). Payment Service Providers (PSP) are CPSS that can be considered both as a critical entity of society and pioneers of digitization. Such transformation is a risky process, and the complexity of CPSS escalates the uncertainty and risks respectively (Pidgeon 2014; Schweizer 2019)
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