Information Support for Making Strategic Decisions on the Development of an Industrial Enterprise Iryna Otenko 1, Marharyta Podorozhna2, Vasyl Otenko 3 1,2,3 Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, ave. Nauki, 9-A, Kharkiv, 61166 Ukraine Abstract Support of strategic decisions on the development of enterprise by information technology provides an opportunity to study in more detail each source of information and draw conclusions. The main role is played by the completeness, timeliness and reliability of information. There are high requirements for it. The clarity of the tasks, data analysis, efficiency of processing the results depend on the qualifications of the staff and technologies used in the enterprise. Strategic decisions reflect the interaction of the campaign and the external environment. Therefore, the company needs to adapt to the external environment, which is constantly changing. Keywords 1 strategy, strategic decisions, support, information, information support, information technology. 1. Introduction works and services; introduction of modern systems of logistics and supply of raw materials, Information support for making strategic materials, components; creation and activity of decisions on enterprise development involves the specialized divisions on carrying out of researches accumulation and storage of information, ensuring and developments, practical realization of access to it for all stakeholders in the innovative scientific and technical achievements; development of the enterprise. Innovative implementation and operation of corporate employees must be technologically and market- knowledge management systems; available staff aware, which will form the necessary information development activities; the degree of use of third- base to create not only product, but also party services by the enterprise (consulting, organizational and marketing innovative ideas. outsourcing, etc.); information on technical Thus, such information base should include characteristics of products, their range and knowledge of past experience and promising areas nomenclature, the degree of diversification of of development in such important areas as: production; advantages and disadvantages features of corporate business strategy, its possible (technical and economic parameters of changes; application of effective management competitiveness) of enterprise products; methods; significance and features of the introduced and promising significant changes in implemented information technologies; changes the design of goods and services; implemented in the organizational structure of the enterprise, and planned changes in the packaging of goods; the distribution of powers and responsibilities, as results of implementation of marketing strategies, well as the goals that must be achieved through actual and perspective market shares, key market these changes; features of application of modern segments of consumers; the results of the use of quality control systems, certification of goods, old and new methods of promoting goods; data on the efficiency of existing distribution and sales III International Scientific And Practical Conference “Information Security And Information Technologies”, September 13–19, 2021, Odesa, Ukraine EMAIL: otenkoip@gmail.com.ua (A. 1); rita.margarita0398@gmail.com (A. 2); ovi@hneu.edu.ua (А. 3) ORCID: 0000-0001-7849-2381 (A. 1); rita.margarita0398@gmail.com (A. 2); 0000-0002-5979-1084 (A. 3) ©️ 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) channels; features of pricing strategies of the criteria of preference for enterprise and the results of their implementation. selection; [1-4,8]. − selection of criteria; The accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the − design of the decision: necessary information play an important role in these interpretation and processes. There are high requirements for it. The evaluation of the results of clarity of the tasks, data analysis, efficiency of the choice (decision); processing the results depend on the qualifications of development and issuance the staff and the technologies used (Table 1). of directives for the Table 1 implementation of the Content of works on information support of decision strategic decision-making Stages Contents of works 2. Presentation of the main material Data - data acquisition and preparation and preparation: observation Problems of strategic decision-making are called problems of unique choice, when the new analysis and search; data object of choice or the situation in which it is acquisition and perception; implemented is new during its implementation [5]. data filtering and The basis for highlighting the existing problems of presentation; situation formation of information and analytical support detection; for strategic decision-making in machine-building − problem statement: enterprises were the methods of questionnaires, identification and observation and expert evaluation. The study of formulation of the problem problems of information and analytical support for situation; determining the strategic decision-making was conducted during structure of the problem 2017-2018 at 18 machine-building enterprises in situation the Kharkiv region [6,8]. In order to study the Problem setting - problem statement: relevance of the issue of formation of information and qualification of connection and analytical support for strategic decision- development of factors; definition of goals making, its importance for the enterprise was alternatives and criteria; determination assessed. Thus, 14 enterprises out of 18 surveyed of conditions; coordination stated the high importance of having a modern system of information and analytical support. The and evaluation of task main requirements for information and analytical components; task support of strategic decision-making in the formulation, enterprise are presented in table 2. − model development, search, development and Table 2 selection of problem Basic requirements for information and analytical solving method; support of strategic decision-making at the − development of enterprise alternatives, grouping of Requirements Explanation alternatives by goals / Openness and Mobility − scalability of criteria and conditions / ease of access to applications, portability to resources; information other objects. − forecasting and Binding applications to a evaluation implementation specific manager and of alternatives specific computing and Making a - definition (refinement) of operating systems. strategic selection criteria: definition Configuration of decision of selection profiles; functionality and user generalization of the interfaces in a distributed manifestation of the structure Compliance Regulated automated Administration of with the basic document management. electronic document principles of Unity of accounting, control management, rights and document and storage of documents. responsibilities. support Unity of substantive and Unified regulations for documentation, formal accounting. maintenance and modification Unity of synthetic and Multi-level system of analysis and preparation analytical accounting. of decision-making with a flexible graphical Multicurrency. user interface. Creating a single Spatial distribution of users. information Real-time information But in fact, from the point of view of space system operation. employees of enterprises, the system of Expanding global information and analytical support for strategic telecommunications decision-making exists in 6 out of 18 surveyed capabilities. enterprises (30%). From this we can conclude that Intra-system information in general there is a need for information and connectivity. analytical support for strategic decision-making, but such a need is not met in domestic enterprises. Multiple interfaces Moreover, the relationship between the need for Preference for Description of structure, information and analytical support and the actual specific composition of functions use is low (table 3). This is confirmed by the management and powers. calculation of the contingency ratio for characteristics Integrated system data dichotomous variables (K = 0.013), the low value and user transmission for various of which indicates the lack of connection between managers, user communication schemes. the need and the actual implementation of the interface Configuration of services system of information and analytical support for specifications (including information strategic decision-making. protection and interaction regulations). Table 3 Configuration of The results of the survey on the importance and intersystem interfaces. availability of information and analytical support Reliability, Redundancy, including for strategic decision-making (IAZ AKP) in the security and technical and information studied machine-building enterprises safety duplication. Indicator Importance There is a Multiple levels of of IAZ AKP problem with protection. (high / low) the Authorization and control implementation of access to the system for of IAZ AKP individual operations. (exists / does Ensuring the Management of not exist) controllability of development strategy and Number of 14/4 6/12 the control tactics. enterprises object Analysis of the state of the out of 18 external and internal surveyed environment. Contingency 0,013 Consolidation of networks ratio of branches and subsidiaries and their The research conducted at the selected management. enterprises was aimed at identifying the need for Management of resources, information and analytical support for strategic portfolios of assets and decision-making and analysis of information on liabilities. the existing problems of formation and use of such support. Selected problems of strategic decision- making in enterprises are presented in table. 4. The allocate funds peculiarity of the selected problems is that in the for IAZ AKP current management of the enterprise they are 6. The 10 4,2 almost not felt − because for the current company's staff management of information support, strategic (including top decision-making itself is often not of particular management) value, looks like an abstraction or refers to the has no future. But this does not diminish the importance information on of the problem in the context of strategic development management. current capabilities on Table 4 the tools of IAZ Problems of formation and use of information- AKP analytical support of strategic decision-making 7. The company 5 3,5 (IAZ AKP) on development of uses some researched enterprises elements of IAZ Problems of Number of The AKP, which are formation and enterprises importance not complete use of out of 18 of the and integrated information- surveyed problem for into the analytical in which enterprise management support of AKP such a management system problem 8. IAZ AKP is 4 3,8 exists formed, but 1. IAZ AKP is not 6 4,8 information formed at all flows are not 2. The company 11 3,6 consistent with does not have each other specialized IT 9. The existing 10 4,6 tools (software) elements of the for the IAZ AKP do not formation of meet the IAZ AKP information 3. The company 9 2,2 needs of has no information specialized users units and 10. The existing 4 2,4 specialists with elements of IAZ IAZ AKP AKP are realized 4. Elements and 9 2,4 inertially separate 11. The results 3 2,0 information of are qualitative, IAZ AKP are but do not find realized by full use in AKP various divisions which Table 4 shows the number of enterprises that activity have these problems and provides an assessment of the importance of such a problem for strategic concerning IAZ decision-making in the enterprise. The number of AKP is not enterprises appears as a discrete quantity and coordinated varies from 1 to 18 (total sample size). The 5. 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