Connecting Industry Change with Risk Analysis

3 Connecting Industry Change with Risk Analysis 

Traditional industry analysis literature has divided the change attributes into factors arising from the internal (transactional) birsiness environment, and factors emerging from the external (contextual) business environment (van der Heijden 1996). The identification of external change forces is essential in order to address the significant and uncertain factors that drive the change at the industry and valne network level. Here, the external factors are also likely to provide the esserrtial weak indication of changing conditions in the business environment of the valne network. 

Conceivably the most cormnonly used taxonomy for the identification and clustering of external factors is the so called PEST - an analysis, which divides the macro environmental forces into Pohtical (and regulatory) forces, Econonric forces, Societal forces, and Technological forces. Examples of these factors are presented briefly in the following  

We argue that it is possible to understand many of the value network changes and risks by analyzing the effect of external change factors. This would be facilitated by analyzing the cause-and-effect relationships between the various external and internal factors of the value networks. 

1 Trend Analysis on Network Level Case ICT-Industry 

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Occupational health and safety finds itself in abreakthrongh condition. Tasks of a traditional safety technician in the past were connected to activities in only one field. However, these tendencies are gradually changing. Peak functions in the field of complex workplace safety expect in the future to cope with tasks in the field of OHS, safety of mechanical devices (SMD), environmental protection, management of hazardous substances and critical industrial accidents, quality managanent, as well as in the field of explosion and fire protection. Classic activities aimed at retrospective accident analysis methods are replaced by prospective methods aimed at application of modern risk analysis methods at the initial stages of a machine s technical life and projection of job positions. 

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