Development of Digital Ecosystems of Industrial Enterprises in the Regions of the South of Russia

In the modern conditions of economic development, digital technologies are changing the approaches to the organization of activities and business models of industrial enterprises. Since flexible relationships between economic actors are currently increasing, digital value chains are being formed and dynamically developed, and cyberphysical systems are being formed, it is advisable to consider digital transformations of production enterprises from the point of view of the ecosystem approach. The purpose of this article is to provide a conceptual understanding of the essence of digital ecosystems of industrial enterprises and analyze their development in the regions of Southern Russia. In this paper, the ecosystem is considered as an interdependent group of actors that jointly use standardized digital platforms in the process of co-evolution for the achievement of mutually beneficial goals. At present, digital ecosystems are a new and promising form of interaction between market players in digital economy and a powerful tool for digitalization, increasing productivity, innovation and flexibility of enterprises. Conceptually, digital ecosystems combine technological, organizational and managerial components. Taking into account the mentioned above, an approach was proposed to analyze the level of development of digital ecosystems of industrial enterprises in the regions of the Southern Federal District of Russia by analyzing the indicators that characterize both digital and analogous components of digitalization of the enterprises themselves, consumers and counterparties. The analysis of the indicators allowed revealing that digital ecosystems are most developed in the following leading regions of Southern Russia: Rostov Region, Krasnodar Krai and the city of Sevastopol. At the same time, if the infrastructure and technological components are developing quite dynamically, more attention should be paid to personnel, organizational and managerial subsystems of these ecosystems.