Digital Maturity of the Enterprise as an Assessment of its Ability to Function in Industry 4.0

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AbstractThe article investigates the digital maturity of energy companies through an assessment of their ability to operate in conditions of digital era. It is substantiated that the assessment of digital maturity is a necessary condition for the digital transformation of the enterprise. The purpose of the article is to assess the digital maturity of enterprises by applying the methodology of digital maturity state definition on the example of energy enterprises using fuzzy logic methods. Based on the analysis of existing models of digital maturity assessment and identification of their shortcomings, the author’s model of digital maturity assessment of the enterprise is developed. Proposed model includes such descriptors of enterprise management system: strategy, personnel, organizational culture, technologies, structure, marketing. The indicators of digital technology used at energy enterprises of Ukraine were analysed on the base of static data. Using the questionnaire method, information on digitalization was collected at Ukrainian energy enterprises. Conclusions about the state of digitalization at the selected enterprises was made based on the processing of the survey data. The model of enterprise’s digital maturity assessment was applied using the provisions of fuzzy set theory and interval scales. There were calculated the levels of digital maturity of Ukrainian energy enterprises by determining the integrated level of digital maturity and maturity level of its individual components. The obtained results of energy enterprises digital maturity assessment made it possible to orientate on specific measures for the digital transformation of energy enterprises.KeywordsDigital maturityDigital transformationAssessment modelEnergy enterprisesFuzzy logic method