Digital Transformation: a Prerequisite and Foundation for Sustainable Development of Mining Operations

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
M.V. Rylnikova ◽  
K.I. Strukov ◽  
D.N. Radchenko ◽  
E.N. Esina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Mining Companies

The paper analyzes the development trends in digital transformation of mining operations, which involves introduction of digital technologies into various business processes with mining companies. The main stages in transition to the new technological modes in mining of mineral deposits using intelligent systems and digital technologies are identified with due account for the specific features of the mining industry. The main ways of methodological support for the ESG rating of mining companies are proposed. It is shown that in the development of scientific and methodological foundations of sustainable development of mining operations it is important to justify the design principles for information technologies to work with Big Data to solve issues concerned with designing, operation, conservation and closure of mining operations..

scholarly journals Digitalization in the Mining Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 184-192
Author(s):  
O. E. Kalenov
Keyword(s):  
Mining Industry ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Ecological Efficiency ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
The World

Competitiveness of mining enterprises is determined, mainly by their productivity and operation superiority. Digitalization becomes a decisive factor, which can provide an opportunity to companies of this sphere to remain competitive in the future. In mining industry passing-over to new, advanced methods of work usually happens more slowly due to the scale and complexity of production processes and considerable costs necessary for re-equipment. That is why certain enterprises of this field use digital technologies without enthusiasm. However, the leading mining companies in the world invest vast funds in development of advanced technologies in power engineering and automation in order to increase mining and ecological efficiency, to cut the volume of hand labour, costs and power expenses. It is obvious that digital technologies can give new opportunities for serious rise in productivity and profit. The article studies key lines in digital transformation at mining enterprises, demonstrates basic advantages and potential threats. The authors analyze both foreign and Russian examples of effective digitalization at enterprises of this sphere.

scholarly journals The Leading Digital Technology Companies and Their Approach to Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6612
Author(s):  
Peter Jones ◽  
Martin Wynn
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Sustainable Future

The increasingly stellar attraction of the digital technologies and the growing, though not universal, consensus of the need to build a sustainable future, are two powerful trends within society. The aim of this article is to offer an exploratory review of how the leading companies within the digital transformation market have addressed sustainable development. As such, the article’s originality and value lie in offering a review of current corporate thinking within that market. The study adopts an inductive, qualitative approach based on an examination of published company reports, and identifies six major sustainability themes being actively promoted and supported. The article concludes that the current sustainability objectives of the technology companies are driven as much by commercial reality as any altruistic motives, and that support and promotion of the circular economy may offer the best opportunity for digital technologies to meaningfully impact sustainable development.

scholarly journals ESTIMATION OF BUSINESS VALUE AS AN ELEMENT OF FORMATION OF BUSINESS MODELS OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES AND AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maksym Odnorog ◽  
◽  
Mykhailo Pivtorak ◽  
Oksana Zagorodniuk ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Digital Management

To date, digital technologies and their widespread practice have formed the potential for completely new business models. However, most organizations are either in the early stages of the digital transformation process, or do not yet dare to form a digital business model that will provide real benefits from digital technologies. In any case, taking into account the enormous pace of global digitalization, it is extremely important to adapt the best practices of digital transformation to the improvement of the Ukrainian economy as soon as possible. Based on this, consider the process of researching new and adapting existing management models. Digital transformation – the introduction of modern technologies to radically change the business models of enterprise management today is considered the most important topic for organizations around the world. The requirements of the new digital economy represent the digital transformation as a conscious strategic process of business modification through adaptive management and implementation of digital technologies, ie the restructuring of existing business models. The same happens at industrial and agro-industrial enterprises, the analog period of which is coming to an end. Industries are entering the digital age, thanks to which enterprises are developing in accordance with the new focus. For this reason, it is very important for the formation of digital models of enterprise management to strategically understand the possibilities of digital technology development in their connection with business processes and business models. The analysis of the main traditional models of effective management of enterprises was carried out and their fundamental differences from the Ukrainian approach to management were revealed, the possibilities of implementation of the principles of existing business models by Ukrainian enterprises were considered. In addition, a roadmap for the transition from a traditional to a digital enterprise was proposed for consideration. The process of modeling the digital management system of the enterprise is revealed. Currently, a prerequisite for the prosperity of the economy of industry and agriculture and, consequently, the economy of Ukraine, is adaptive digital management as a basis for economic security of the enterprise. It was found that the relentless introduction of digital technologies, «copying best practices» can later be in reality as dangerous as the refusal to master new technologies. Therefore, choosing the direction of your own digitization, you must first study everything thoroughly, so as not to miss the moment and not to remain in the ranks of the latter or in the past.

scholarly journals E-Leadership: The Implication of Digital Transformation for Leadership in Organizations in Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fetnani Cecilia
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Scale Transformation ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Case Study Methodology

The paper discusses electronic leadership (e-leadership) competencies that would ensure organizational competitiveness in the digital transformation of an organisation or a unit of an organisation. Like any other large-scale transformation of a business that has high failure rates, digital transformation can fail and it is failing in organisations in Africa; making them bankrupt requiring business rescue or taking them completely out of business. Digital transformation is considered as the process of using digital technologies (integrating cyber-physical systems (CPS) i.e., (intelligent network systems) and business processes) to create and improve production, sustain customer experiences; thus, the use of digital technologies to integrate business process, office automation, industrial process and factory automation to transform business. It is therefore argued that most African organizations are currently faced with the critical challenge of determining the pre- convergence and convergence of technologies, their alignment with strategy and their integration with business processes and systems to build digital business infrastructure for competitiveness. The concept of enactment of technology-in-practice derived from Adaptive Structuration Theory was used as a lens through which to understand and interpret the implications of the digital transformation on leadership competencies to derive e-leadership profile to lead African businesses in the digital age. As such the objective of this paper is to determine the competencies of e-leadership to lead digital transformation agenda of an organization in a highly and digitally competitive marketplace. It is a qualitative study, using an interpretative paradigm in a case study methodology where semi- structured interviews were used to collect data from each unit of analysis representing specific South African based businesses. The selected Cases in South African were extensively investigated. The enactment of e-leadership derived from AST is proposed to lead digital transformation. The implication is that the deployment of e-leadership in an organization has a potential to yield benefits such as the creation of higher organisational flexibility, empowerment of staff and strategic/competitive advantages for the organization. This paper proposes that having effective e-leaders in an organisation would lead to adequate appropriation of digital technologies to digitally transform an organisation.

scholarly journals Management of ICT Implementations in Enterprises in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Bogusława Ziółkowska
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Resource Configuration ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Distance Communication

In order to develop and be competitive, modern enterprises, which function in an environment that is globalised, dynamic and subject to strong digitalisation pressure, need to implement information technologies in a way that will allow them, as they achieve further levels of virtualisation, to maintain, and even enhance, their ability to create value added. As business activity is moved to a space shaped by computers and IT networks and distance communication tools and forms are developed, the importance of establishing contacts and relations in the organisation and execution of value-creation business processes increases. Digitalisation of the economy and society is one of the most dynamic changes of our times, opening up new opportunities to create business models, while bringing uncertainty and various threats connected, among other things, with social consequences of the automation of production processes and security in a broad sense. The aim of the presentation is to indicate areas of activity in which information technologies are most often implemented in enterprises in Poland as well as managers' strategic approach to this problem in the face of digital transformation. The paper presents the level of Polish enterprises’ engagement in the process of digital transformation and shows how the progress in terms of implementation of modern ICT in the aspect of customer contacts, managing and executing contacts with suppliers and recipients and resource configuration, impacts the effectiveness of the enterprises surveyed.

scholarly journals Legacy Digital Transformation: TCO and ROI Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Ravi Kiran Mallidi ◽  
Manmohan Sharma ◽  
Jagjit Singh
Keyword(s):  
Return On Investment ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital World ◽  
New Business ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Business Needs ◽  
Security Organizations

Legacy Digital Transformation is modernizing or migrating systems from non-digital or older digital technology to newer digital technologies. Digitalization is essential for information reading, processing, transforming, and storing. Social media, Cloud, and analytics are the major technologies in today's digital world. Digitalization (business process) and Digital Transformation (the effect) are the core elements of newer global policies and processes. Recent COVID pandemic situation, Organizations are willing to digitalize their environment without losing business. Digital technologies help to improve their capabilities to transform processes that intern promote new business models. Applications cannot remain static and should modernize to meet the evolving business and technology needs. Business needs time to market, Agility, and reduce technical debt. Technology needs consist of APIs, better Security, Portability, Scalability, Cloud support, Deployment, Automation, and Integration. This paper elaborates different transformation/modernization approaches for Legacy systems written in very long or End of Life (EOL) systems to newer digital technologies to serve the business needs. EOL impacts application production, supportability, compliance, and security. Organizations spend money and resources on Digital Transformation for considering Investment versus Return on Investment, Agility of the System, and improved business processes. Migration and Modernization are critical for any Legacy Digital Transformation. Management takes decisions to proceed with Digital Transformation for considering Total Cost Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) of the program. The paper also includes a TCO-ROI calculator for Transformation from Legacy / Monolithic to new architectures like Microservices.

scholarly journals Development of the Logistics 4.0 Concept in the Digital Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
N. Trushkina ◽  
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H. Dzwigol ◽  
O. Serhieieva ◽  
Yu. Shkrygun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Delivery Times ◽  
Sustainable Logistics

The transition to a digital economy is becoming a key driver of GDP growth. This is due not only to the effect obtained from the automation of existing processes, but also from the introduction of new, breakthrough business models and technologies, including digital platforms, digital ecosystems, in-depth analytics of big data, Industry 4.0, Logistics 4.0. At the same time, digital transformation is seen as a radical change in the complex of business processes, from product development to customer service, as well as the introduction of modern digital technologies in the organization of business processes in enterprises. The purpose of the article is to analysis the features and trends of organizing logistics activities in the context of digital transformation of business processes; research of the main prerequisites for the formation of the Logistics 4.0 concept; determination of priority directions for its further development in the context of Industry 4.0. Based on the generalization of scientific approaches, the definition of the concept of "Logistics 4.0" has been clarified, which means the modern paradigm of managing logistic (material, financial, information, transport) flows and organizing a complex of logistics activities (purchase and delivery of material resources, warehousing, production, stock formation, recycling of industrial waste, customer service, transportation and sale of finished products) using breakthrough digital technologies and information systems. The priority areas of organizing the logistics activities of enterprises using digital technologies include the following: multichannel logistics; logistics marketplaces; rethinking the use of packaging; mass personalization; Silver Economy (new services for older clients and new opportunities for older workers); sustainable logistics; sharing economy; multi-supply; customer experience; smart containerization; big data analytics; augmented and virtual reality; cloud service applications and APIs; Internet of Things; robotics and automation; new generation wireless communication; blockchain; Artificial Intelligence; unmanned aerial vehicles or "drones"; 3D printing; unmanned vehicles; quantum computing; supergrid logistics; space logistics; the use of digital platforms that unite customers and transport and logistics companies (the parties can enter into digital contracts, exchange transport booking requests and electronic documents, control the delivery of goods in real time). All this can help to reduce costs by optimizing procurement; decrease in personnel costs and decrease in labour costs as a result of automation; reduction of errors in logistics; optimization of the supply process; efficient warehouse management; forecasting shipments; creation of optimal routes; operational planning of loads and control of delivery times; ensuring product delivery on time, improving customer loyalty; optimal interaction with customers on the "last mile".

scholarly journals FEATURES OF ENSURING ECONOMIC SECURITY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY IN THE EPOCH OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
O. V. Korotkova
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Functional Components ◽  
Transformation Processes

The article is devoted to the study of theoretical and applied aspects of the impact of digital technology on business and the process of ensuring the economic security of enterprises. It is shown that a significant aspect of maintaining an enterprise in a state of economic security is the ability to adapt to the changing external environment in which the enterprise operates. The paper considers the main functional components of the economic security of enterprises. The features of the influence of digital technologies on the effectiveness of individual functional components of economic security are investigated. The list of objects of digital transformation processes for enterprises is determined in order to ensure economic security. Digital transformation objects are grouped into three blocks: the infrastructure for ensuring economic security using digital technologies, information and communication systems, business processes and management systems. The features of economic security of entrepreneurial activity and the main factors of the introduction of digital technologies in enterprises are highlighted. The author formulated the main tasks of the economic security system of an enterprise in the context of digital transformations. The basic requirements for creating the appropriate conditions for ensuring transformational information and technological processes are determined.

scholarly journals Digital Transformation of Business Analytical Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
O. E. Mikhnenko
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Control Apparatus

Current development and management of economic activity is largely associated with the implementation of the concept of the digital economy, which poses new challenges for business intelligence. The set of tasks is formed in order to develop business intelligence so that it matches the improved management of economic subjects, and to ensure the quality of business processes when digital technologies are introduced. Improved management based on the concept of the business environment implies that monitoring principles are used to analyze the behavior of external business environment participants with the purpose to build a rational partnership relationship. The digital economy creates information opportunities in this area, as it provides the access to Big Data and their processing using Big data analytics technologies. With regard to the requirements of management, the article analyzes the behavior of elements of the internal business environment to develop a management solution to improve the effectiveness of their behavior. The high quality of the solution is provided by the information model being a highly adequate image of a particular object under control and the ability of the control apparatus to fully realize the volume of its inherent functions. Under these conditions, the digital transformation of analytical processes is based on its own information platform, which should use breakthrough digital technologies. The research uses such methods as systemic analysis to generalize the modern concepts of economic system management, development of digital technologies and their introduction into management decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Digital transfrmation model of education processes through cloud services

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-232
Author(s):  
Nenad Stefanović ◽  
Jelena Plašić
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Digital Services

Education in the 21st century is confronted with many challenges - it needs to be personalized, adaptive to user needs, collaborative, social, multimedial, and technologically supported. The development of information technologies such as cloud computing, mobile technologies, platforms for social networking and collaboration, and intelligent systems, has created enormous opportunities for improvement of the education processes. In order to ensure required quality level, educational institutions are forced to enter the digital transformation process. In this paper, the analysis of the existing state of the education system and overview of the existing results in the digital transformation are given. Process model for digital transformation of education that encompasses the entire lifecycle, as well as the framework for implementation of cloud digital services with basic phases and steps is presented. The concrete use cases of application of the digital services in teaching and learning are shown. The results obtained show efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed process model and the framework, as well as the cloud-based digital platform. The main benefits include a higher satisfaction level of students and teachers, better exam results, more intensive collaboration and communication, knowledge exchange, lower costs, as well as a better reliability and security of the system. Service for monitoring and data analysis enable more efficient decision making and taking actions for improvements.

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