ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЕ и МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ РАЗРАБОТКИ РЕГИОНАЛЬНЫХ СТРАТЕГИЙ

Abstract

Introduction: the adoption of the Federal Law “On Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation” and the Guidelines for the development and adjustment of the regional socio-economic development strategy in the Russian Federation updated the research in the field of regional strategic planning, including those related to the methodological and informational support of strategies. However, there are no works that comprehensively analyze the problems of information and methodological support at each stage of the regional strategy development. Aims: the paper is to analyze the problem issues in information and methodological support of the regional socio-economic strategy and to identify information flows, sources, methods and information products for information storage and processing at key stages of its development. Methods: system analysis method; structural method; comparative analysis method; expert method.  Results: the problem areas in the informational and methodological support of regional strategies at the analytical, goal-setting and the scenario stages have been assessed. For each stage the necessary information and its sources, storage and processing data methods, as well as the existing information products for data processing have been identified and structured. At scenario stage, a brief analysis of the applicability of certain forecast methods was carried out for accuracy, objectivity, adaptability to changes, universality, and applicability to the regional strategy. Conclusions: the formation of an effective system of regional strategic planning faces a number of significant organizational, informational, methodological problems, partly due to the fact that the Guidelines for developing regional strategies do not provide for informational and methodological support at each stage of regional strategy formulation. The Guidelines need adjustment in regard to the methodological tools for processing information at each stage, including the use of mathematical modeling methods at the scenario stage.