In the article directions of perfection of methods of management of formation and use of corporate information resources of economic subjects of the industry carrying out modernization and carrying out measures for technological development of their production systems, taking into account the features of their activity, and development of methodical support for project management development. In particular, a methodical approach to the management of information resources in the course of modernization and development of industrial enterprises as well as business groups as a means of ensuring their sustainable development is proposed, which is characterized by the fact that for effective activity in the management systems of sustainable development of enterprises and business groups special sub-systems for information management, intellectual capital and knowledge are introduced, representing a set of interrelated and interdependent components, coordinated function Also, a method is proposed for assessing the efficiency of the development of production systems of a industrial enterprise in the field of information and knowledge, based on calculating the share of the enterprise or business group in the total volume of knowledge of development in a particular market. To assess the effectiveness of the information resource management system, subject to changes in the modernization process, an integral parameter was proposed, characterized by the fact that it includes indicators of effectiveness, speed and resource intensity, which makes it possible to comprehensively take into account and evaluate the efficiency of modernization of production systems. When modernizing industrial production, the correspondence between the processes of information and knowledge management and the elements of the corporate culture that determine the quality and effectiveness of the creation and use of knowledge and the formation of new intellectual capital on their basis are revealed.