Features of enterprise's digital transformation project management

The article suggests a review of modern trends and features of project management on digital transformation of industrial enterprises, based on World Economic Forum and McKinsey Global Institute researches, the importance of mixture of “waterfall” and “agile” project management methods in usage of artificial intelligence technology is underlined. Principally important issue for project implementation is the relationship of project participants on intellectual property rights protection, because software products are enhancing and increasing their values during project implementation and extension of databases. Project leaders and managers of enterprise’s digital transformation are mastering new features and specificities of project management in current conditions and adoptation methods to changing reality and new technologies. Conclusions of WEF experts are subject of interest from the point of view of comparison of international and national project management experiences on implementation of innovations of “4-th industrial revolution”. In conclusion a short description of pilot project implementation in Kazakhstan, based on artificial intelligence and stressed out main problems of technology adoption scaling is presented. The difficulty of project scaling is determined in uncertainty of profitability of investments at the initial project stage as well as difficulties in valuation of new technology adoption and extension.

управление проектом, цифровая трансформация, искусственный интеллект, интернет вещей, сетевая интеграция, автоматизация, дистанционное управление, project management, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, internet of things, network integration, automation, remote control, жобаның басқаруы, цифрлық түрлендіру, жасанды интеллект, ғаламтор заттары, желілік интеграция, автоматтандыру, қашықтан басқару

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