Tools for assessing digital readiness of an industrial enterprise for smart development

Digital readiness is the most important prerequisite for the implementation of digital transformations of an industrial enterprise. The study of the level of digital readiness for smart development is of particular importance for machine-building enterprises, since in modern conditions of sanctions, the domestic machine-building complex producing industrial goods can become a driver for the innovative development of the entire Russian economy. Management decision-making, adopting a digital transformation strategy and improvement of the production are based on an assessment of the current state of the country, region and the enterprise under study. The purpose of this article is to develop a methodology for assessing the level of digital readiness of an industrial enterprise for smart development. The proposed assessment tools are based on the definition of the digital readiness index, determined on the basis of weighted averages of indicators of digital development at different management levels. To achieve this goal, we reviewed theoretical and methodological studies of smart industrial development, formed conditions and criteria for the transition to a smart enterprise, analyzed statistical data on the digital development of the country and the region, identified the values of qualitative indicators characterizing the digital development of the enterprise by the method of expert assessments. The authors proposed "Digital Readiness Index" as an indicator that allows assessing the current level of enterprise development, taking into account country and regional features of digital transformation. The peculiarity of the authors' methodology is to take into account the complex impact of macro-, meso- and micro-level factors on the digital readiness of the enterprise. The approbation of the developed tools, carried out on the example of the machine-building enterprise Klever JSC, demonstrated the possibility of its application to assess the digital readiness of an industrial company for smart development. The level of digital readiness of the enterprise as a result of using the tools is expressed as a fraction of the maximum possible value in the existing unchanged conditions of the country and region. The findings have important managerial implications, since they emphasize the need to support the processes of digital transformation at all levels of management, identify the strengths and weaknesses of each level, and allow a systematic review of the digital readiness of the enterprise.