DIGITAL MATURITY OF MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES

The digitization of the world economy is a natural evolutionary change due to the dynamic development of information and communication technologies. The introduction of digital technologies and the use of the benefits of digital transformation comes from a general desire to systematically increase the efficiency of key industries of national economies. The paper analyses the level of technological development of selected manufacturing enterprises and suggests the ways of using internal digital instruments and measures to achieve their "digital maturity". The analysis contains manufacturing enterprises of various levels of digitization from high-digitized through medium-digitized to low-digitized. It is based on official statistics and public financial statements and the index method is used to assess levels of digitization of individual manufacturing enterprises. The results show the causes and consequences of different levels of digitization of individual manufacturing enterprises and serve as a fundamental for further theoretical and applied research on the trajectories of the development of the "digitization" of manufacturing enterprises.