GROUPING OF ENTERPRISES BY DEGREE OF DIGITALIZATION: A NEW RATING MODEL

Abstract

The modern economy is in the stage of digitalization, and this process has led to fundamental changes in the management systems, information flows and decision-making mechanisms of enterprises. As 
a result of the application of digital technologies, enterprises have begun to operate more flexibly, information-based and customer-oriented. These changes are especially in the focus of attention of specialists working in the field of economic information systems, since digitalization directly changes the structural and functional characteristics of these systems. The degree of digitalization of enterprises is not the same. Differences in the level of digitalization are observed between sectors and within sectors. Analysis and systematization of these differences 
are important for an objective assessment of the level of digital transformation of enterprises. For this purpose, grouping enterprises according to the degree of digitalization and developing a new rating model can play a significant role both in the formation of state policy and in the strategic planning of the private sector.
The purpose of the article is to systematically group enterprises of different sectors and sizes based 
on their digitalization indicators and build a rating model. This model can serve as a stable basis for both enterprises to assess their digital development levels and the analytical decision-making of the 
state and other stakeholders. The study will review digitalization indicators based on statistics from international data sources such as the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) and Statistics, and 
will analyze them in the context of economic information systems theory and applications.
Keywords: economic development and digitalization, clustering, grouping of enterprises, rating model, digital integration, digitalization, digital transformation, cross-sectoral digital transformation