Digital Transformation of International Corporations: Professional Qualification Development

Abstract

The article substantiates the need for professional training of university teachers in the process of digital transformation of enterprises, which will accelerate this process and increase its efficiency by forming new competencies for both employees and consumers of goods and services of enterprises. The paper describes digitalization, notes the elements of which it consists, and provides the factors of its development in the conditions of modern uncertainty caused, among other things, by the pandemic. It also notes the dynamics of the global development of digitalization and highlights the main trends and problems. Based on the analysis of the digitalization index, the reserves for the growth of the effectiveness of Russia’s digital transformation associated with the increase in the digitalization of human capital are determined. The authors propose a model of digital transformation of the professional training of university teachers based on the factors of the external and internal environment, principles, necessary competencies, stages and results.