Conceptual principles of forming the strategy of digital transformation of the national economy

Abstract

The article substantiates the conceptual foundations for developing a digital transformation strategy to advance the national economy. It has been established that digital transformation is a complex systemic process that goes beyond the implementation of digital technologies and encompasses structural, economic, organizational, institutional, and social changes aimed at increasing the productivity, competitiveness, and sustainability of the national economy. The evolution of scientific views on the concept of “digital transformation” is systematized, and the interrelated stages of digital transformations are distinguished: digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation. It was determined that the modern understanding of digital transformation is characterized by a transition from a technology-oriented approach to a systemic vision, in which digital technologies, data, innovations, and digital competences form the basis of the structural restructuring of economic and social processes. Modern scientific approaches to interpreting digital transformation are systematized, and the expediency of using a system-integrated approach at the level of the national economy, which combines technological, economic, organizational, institutional, and social components, is substantiated. It is proposed to consider the digital transformation of the national economy as a systematic, long-term, and managed process of structural-institutional and socio-economic transformation, based on digital technologies, data, innovation, and digital competences. The relationship between digital transformation and the development of the national economy is substantiated, which has a two-way nature: economic development forms the resource, institutional and personnel prerequisites for digital transformations, while digital transformation provides new opportunities for economic growth through increased productivity, stimulation of innovation, reduction of transaction costs, development of new markets and improvement of public administration efficiency. Keywords: digital transformation, digitalization, digital economy, national economy, development strategy, digital technologies, digital infrastructure.