DIGITIZATION AS A PRODUCTION FACTOR

Abstract

The article discusses the features of digitalization as a production factor, which determine the need to build a comprehensive management system for corporate interactive space to maintain competitiveness and ensure the efficiency of business processes. Digitalization is defined as a targeted mechanism for integrating current platform solutions into business and economic activities, commercial communications, and management of financial and material flows in order to ensure efficiency and maintain competitiveness. The authors substantiate the need to include digitalization in the coordinate system of additional production factors, which correlates with the features of the current evolutionary stage of development of the socio-economic formation. Management of digitalization as a production factor should take place in compliance with the principles of safety, efficiency, consistency, accessibility, compliance, and dynamism. The practical part of the work considers individual aspects of the digital transformation carried out in the corporate segment of the socio-economic system of Russia. To solve this problem, current indicators were graphically visualized and analyzed within the four-year dynamics, reflecting the capacity and intensity of the use of digital technologies in the economic activities of enterprises, changes in the costs of organizations for the implementation of digital technologies, as well as the variability of the volume of services in the field of telecommunications. The article concludes that it is advisable to manage digitalization from the position of considering it as an additional factor of production, actively participating in economic activities and acting as a tool for obtaining additional income.