Enterprise's digital transformation: strategic decision-making

Abstract

This article examines the digital transformation of an enterprise and the associated strategic decision-making aimed at achieving stable results in the long term, as well as typical practical mistakes made during such a transformation. The highlighted issues of digital transformation are applicable in the practice of private or state-owned enterprises and equally affect both production and non-production areas of activity. The article reveals the essence of the established approaches in the field of digital transformation and their differences when considered in the short and long-term development prospects of the company. Along with this, we offer simple and universal ways to prepare for digital transformation in an enterprise. It is noted that it is important to work with business processes and architecture of future systems in order to fully understand the expected boundaries of digital transformation and determine the expected effects not only in the form of financial and time indicators, but also to better understand the form in which this digital transformation should be implemented. Special attention in this article is paid to the impossibility of digital transformation without a preliminary examination and current state of the subject area. Thus, there is a high probability of obtaining a negative result of the improvement measures carried out with the immediate digitalization of any subject area without rethinking it. At the output, as a rule, you can get the same disordered processes, only in digital form and much more expensive to maintain, since after digitalization the process will use digital tools (for example, an editor program, a parser, etc.), or a full-fledged information system in need of constant technical support and updates. In conclusion, we can note the conclusions concerning both the process and architectural components of digital transformation, as well as the need to assess the effectiveness of previously implemented digital solutions, the real effectiveness of which in some cases can be questioned. Thus, the author highlights the research needs of not only the current, but also the retrospective state of a particular company’s subject area, which does not show the effects announced during the implementation of digital solutions.