V. Gonchar, Z. Simanaviciene. Information support of management processes of the industrial enterprises: ways and prospects of development.

Abstract

Information support is a key element of development of strategy today. Development of digital technologies reached a stage which opens new qualities of their application in administrative process. Interaction of information technologies between physical systems with the built-in software and global data transmission networks is one of key factors of maintaining competitiveness of the industrial enterprise. Understanding of interrelation between distribution of digital technologies and their social consequences is a question of the difficult and mutual relations which are formed under the influence of numerous economic, social and political factors which finally define how new potentials of technological application and what results will be received by the enterprise will be really applied. Information support of management processes at the industrial enterprises first of all has to be directed to interaction of new technologies with resultant personnel and organizational changes therefore demands conceptual revision of the general context of production. An analytical starting point for this purpose is the concept of "a sociotechnical system" which covers communications between technological, organizational and human elements of the general system of production. In a concrete phase of introduction, under certain circumstances, long, expensive and mutual process of coordination between a new system and the existing installation conditions will be required. Improvement of management processes thanks to information support gives to the industrial enterprises the chance: quicker response to environment calls; to adapt a data transmission technique; to reduce time for processing and the analysis of data; to provide reliability of information on a condition of processes at the enterprise; to improve process of forecasting of a market conjuncture, etc.