Volume 3, Issue 2, 2023

The author used the general theory of strategy and methodology of strategizing to interpret the digital transformation of public administration. He described the digital transformation of public administration as a public value with a strategic perspective of national economic growth that will eventually improve the standard of living and the welfare of citizens. The research combined theory and practice with the achievements of different economic strategy schools. The author tested the digital public administration using Professor Vladimir Kvint’s methodology of strategic thinking and activity and the Gostekh digital platform. The author also applied the Clark-Groves mechanism to urban environment as a tool for selecting public projects. The scientific and applied nature of the research made it possible to determine the strategic perspective for the digitalization of public administration as a means of selecting landscape objects and public territories for landscaping via online voting.

The current global situation involves turbulent financial markets, new geopolitical reality, advanced digital technologies, and multimodal transport corridors. Therefore, to strategize the development of an economic branch and its interaction with foreign markets, one should proceed from new principles of technological connectivity of industries, the importance of resources in the global value chain, the qualityandprice balance, reliable market access opportunities, transport accessibility, cybersecurity, etc. Typification of a natural resource has become especially important in the new conditions. If it is renewable, the long-term goal of its capitalization is to preserve or multiply. If it is non-renewable, the main goal in the formation of national welfare is the maximal output and recultivation. This typification of resources presupposes that a raw material economy has sufficient technological, technical, financial, and political potential to process the resource at the place of its extraction and receive sufficient revenue to either preserve and multiply this resource or to provide the maximal output and reclamation. Access to labor resources and demand market determines the main goal of an economy that depends on the import of natural resources. It involves generating revenue from the production and sale of the final products and services in a place of solvent demand and the additional need to create national welfare based on the existing political, intellectual, and technological resources. Technological sovereignty requires new cooperative cross-country strategies for the interaction of industries and businesses. Technological sovereignty needs a scenario-predictive modeling of the potential of coordination mechanisms to develop mutually beneficial interaction between industries during the high turbulence on foreign markets. The article introduces methodological tools for the development of cooperative cross-country strategies between industries and business. It includes a novel interpretation of the adaptation vectors for national strategies and corporate interests in food security, based on cooperative intersectoral and cross-country development strategies. After the Second Russia-Africa Summit, the article might be useful for the authorities responsible for the technological sovereignty, development, and leadership of Russia.

The economic development of a federal state depends on each of its subjects: uneven socioeconomic conditions increase the number of lagging regions, which prevents the economic development at the federal level. As a result, the theory of regional economic science needs new strategizing patterns to help some regional economies abandon their subsidized status. The research relied on the theory of strategy and the methodology of strategizing developed by Professor Vladimir Kvint, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation, whose studies have been successfully implemented in a number of regional and sectoral strategies. According to the general methodology of strategizing, the analysis of global, sectoral, and regional trends precedes the search for new opportunities for the object of strategizing. The author used the case of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic to study the development strategies of subsidized regions, as well as designed some tools to assess the quality of life and financial independence in the region. The article provides theoretical foundation for strategizing the exit from subsidized economy and offers a cost-benefit analysis pattern.

Tourism has become an important economy sector in many Russian regions. The Kemerovo Region has accepted the Strategy of Socio-Economic Development through 2035, hence the need to strategize the development of new tourist destinations. The research objective was to determine various strategic directions for the development of tourism and hospitality industry in the Guryevsk municipal district. The research relied on the strategizing methods developed by Professor Vladimir Kvint, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as on some general scientific research methods, e.g., abstract-logical, complexfactorial, economic-statistical, analogy, comparative and system analysis, etc. The study revealed a possibility of interregional clusters, national and business routes, environmental, medical and recreational cross-border and regional tourism, etc. The district has good industrial potential, combined with historical and cultural heritage. These strategic directions are able to fuel the local tourism and hospitality development. The authors believe that tourism is a key priority for Russian economy, as well as for the Kemerovo Region, where domestic tourism started to flourish during the COVID-19 pandemic. The region has extensive potential and opportunities to attract tourists, while its Guryevsk municipal district possesses all necessary prerequisites for the active development of tourism.

The article focuses on the main issues of tourism development during the current global crisis. The unprecedented sanctions that Russia had to face in 2022 affected the tourism industry at the global, national, and regional levels. This strategic analysis of the global and national tourism industry featured the external environment of the strategizing object as an important stage in determining the strategic priorities for domestic tourism. The research made it possible to identify and analyze some global and national trends in the development of tourism industry in modern conditions.

A personal brand unites one’s exceptionalism, individual traits, professionalism, experience, and reputation. In the era of the global digital media and strategic communication, a personal brand becomes a strategic asset that brings financial benefits. Its strategic role at the labor market is that it can increase one’s income, if properly invested in. However, the theory and methodology of strategic branding at the labor market remains understudied. The present research objective was to prove the effectiveness of investing in a personal brand in order to achieve strategic goals at the labor market. To analyze the basic concepts of signaling models and the game theory, the authors used the theory and methodology of strategizing developed by V.L. Kvint, Dr.Sc.(Econ.), Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Life-time). The authors believe that the era of information economy have turned strategic brands into a signaling mechanism. The relationship between personal brand and reputation forms the basis of the behavioral direction, which uses behavioral economics to define the effect of reputation on the labor market and employee behavior. The strategic development of a personal brand increases its competitiveness at the labor market, and a tailored employment strategy is likely to be successful in the long run. Keywords: personal strategy, brand, signaling, media system, labor market

Innovation systems depend on information technologies. The intense international competition encourages states to interact as they allocate resources, search for new markets, expand their economic presence, etc. The authors analyzed the strategic opportunities for the development of the national innovation system in the process of implementing financial innovations. The research relied on the theoretical and methodological provisions of the School of Strategizing developed by Professor Vladimir Kvint, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Each innovative industrial cluster is a complex hierarchical system. To study its methodology, scientists have to investigate the movement of each structural element towards common strategic goals. Philosophy gives the theory of strategizing a harmonious development. Strategists rely on philosophers in their search for the most effective research methods. Philosophers answer the questions about the role man in the world and the way people transform the natural, economic, and social reality. An effective strategy for an innovative industrial cluster should rely on a balanced approach in order to improve the quality of life and achieve the national technological sovereignty. To strategize an industrial cluster, one needs to analyze resource availability and competitive advantages, define strategic priorities and goals, develop infrastructure, consolidate participants based on common strategic goals, etc. The paper describes research methods aimed at effective cluster strategizing, including the development, creation, dissemination, and introduction of innovations into the production process. The basic principles of the strategic decision-making system are aimed at successful innovative industrial cluster enterprises that provide rational use of innovative potential and multiply in the long run. The systematic strategic approach to financial investments is a key condition for innovation clustering during the emergency period. This decision-making system for strategic investment can help managers of an innovative industrial cluster to achieve strategic goals, maximize profitability, and secure long-term success, provided that the strategy is implemented consistently and fully.