The article aims to study the structure of and improve the model for the fostering of managerial competencies to solve the problems of a technological breakthrough in the domestic economy. The authors apply their proprietary approach that makes it possible to reveal the range of interdisciplinarity and to specify its content. Methods and tools for mastering the competencies in demand are developed. As the empirical base which proves the validity of their сonclusions, the authors cite their own research as well as the results of the analysis of educational programs in engineering management implemented at the leading universities of the world, and the expert opinions of the heads of energy enterprises and professors of Russian universities. The paper analyzes the key factors in the formation of interdisciplinary competencies: a management paradigm towards which the educational process is oriented, a model of knowledge and skills that is adequate to the content of the tasks of a technological breakthrough, a methodology for analyzing interdisciplinary relationships in managerial decisions. The article outlines the relevant experience of training managers of various levels by the Department of Energy Management Systems and Industrial Enterprises of Ural Federal University.

The study is scientifically novel as it discovers a new approach to understanding interdisciplinarity when determining the managerial competencies necessary for a technological breakthrough. The practical significance of the article is due to the fact that it presents the experience of implementing the developed approach to the training of managers with an increased readiness to constantly embrace and implement future technologies.

Scientific and technological progress amid the process of global digitalisation has prompted the demand for professions in relevant fields such as logistics, analytics, agriculture, industrial manufacturing, transport, and primarily for engineering and technical workers. Russian railways require not only physical infrastructure, but also digital skills of its operation by engineering and technical workers in order to integrate into the digital economy. The aim of the article is to study modern requirements for the professional competencies of railway engineers, primarily their digital literacy and the ability to work with special software. The authors mention the need for an engineer to have softskills and hardskills. The article provides a list of the main software complexes that are included in the special digital competencies of a railway engineer.

The authors of the article through the example of railway transport, describe the directions of digitalisation of railway transport, which is a link between the branches of the national and partly global economy. The emphasise the advanced development of scientific and technological progress in the transport industry – the “Digital Railway” project, which generates related tasks, one of which is the modern training of engineering personnel and the consolidation of digital competencies and metaskills in professional standards.

The socio-economic effects from the introduction of smart manufacturing technologies are of significant interest in terms of their generalisation and systematisation at the current stage of the digital transformation on industrial enterprises, as well as the objectives in the context of industrial modernization and new business model development. The proposed systematisation is based on the allocation of three groups of socio-economic effects according to the main direction of their action. The first group of effects primarily leads to reduction in the costs of industrial enterprises. The second group of effects leads mainly to an increase in revenues: some effects to a greater extent in the short and medium term, others in the long term, including through the creation of long-term distinctive capabilities, unique competencies, and sustainable competitive advantages for industrial companies. The third group of effects includes social and economic effects that are broader in focus and have a multiplicative effect, as well as the character of positive externalities (external effects).

As a result of systematisation, the author identified in three groups, respectively, 12, 8 and 13 effects from the implementation of the complex of smart manufacturing technologies. The author stresses the particular importance of studying the socio-economic effects from the implementation of smart manufacturing technologies, since many improvements at the intersection of production and social transformation are currently insufficiently studied. It contrasts to the core production effects, many of which have been studied in sufficient detail by the scientific and expert communities. Systematisation, classification, differentiation and quantitative assessment of various socio-economic effects of the complex of smart manufacturing technologies can and even in a certain sense should (in the context of the tasks to modernise the economy and industries of the Russian Federation) become a separate subject area at the intersection of performance management and smart production.

The purpose of this article is to identify possible approaches to the development of an Organizational sustainability conceptual model and to present this model for discussion by the expert community. To achieve this goal, the author suggests defining the structure and description of individual elements of sustainability, as well as establishing the relationship between them. The sustainability model will serve as a conceptual basis for the development of international and national standards aimed at certain aspects of organizational sustainability, will assist organizations in developing and implementing sustainability strategies and goals, managing ESG factors and associated risks and opportunities, as well as preparing non-financial reporting.

Based on the analysis of domestic and foreign experience of digital transformation and the conducted expert survey, the authors conclude that Russia, in comparison with other countries, does not have a leading position in the implementation of digital technologies. At the same time, the electric power industry being the basic sector of the economy which is responsible for its safe and sustainable development, in terms of digitalization is on the sidelines, yielding to retail, the banking industry, telecommunications and the manufacturing industry. At the same time, digitalisation is a promising direction and can have a significant positive impact on the electric power industry. The purpose of the study is to assess the current level of digital maturity of the electric power industry in Russia, identify the main barriers to digital transformation and develop proposals in order to overcome them.

The article uses generalisation, comparative analysis, analyses empirical data of digitalisation in Russia and abroad, conducts a survey of experts in the electric power industry about its digital maturity.

Digital platforms significantly transform the activities of industrial companies opening up wide opportunities for increasing labor productivity in the organization and the level of cooperation between various companies in creating value for the consumer, including innovations, entering new markets among which are also foreign ones. At the same time, the level of use of digital platforms for the designated purposes varies. This article will consider the advantages of using digital platforms for enterprises, and also determine the level of use of digital platforms for the purposes outlined above among Russian industrial companies.

The article reviewed the literature in the framework of the study of digital platforms. The main types of digital platforms were considered: instrumental, infrastructural and applied. Within the framework of three types of digital platforms, the features of the of interaction mechanism between their participants are considered.

A study was also conducted in terms of determining the levels of interaction between participants of digital platforms within the framework of social, managerial, economic and technological activities. It was revealed that, in general, within the framework of digital platforms, their participants are characterized by a high level of relationships.

At the same time, the article conducted a study to determine the role of each participant in the development of their interaction within digital platforms of instrumental, infrastructural and applied types. It is revealed that the development of relationships between participants of digital platforms is influenced by the integration of all participants providing a synergistic effect.

In modern conditions, to increase the efficiency of industrial waste management, a radical transformation of the business processes within industry enterprises, the introduction of modern digital technologies, the use of platform business models are required. The purpose of the article is to study the role of digital platforms to improve the efficiency of interaction between companies working in the field of waste disposal and recycling. The study analyses the participation of internal and external company stakeholders in the industrial waste processing industry. Empirical analysis is carried out on the basis of qualitative and quantitative analysis based on in-depth expert interviews. The sample includes interviews with the heads of 150 Russian industrial waste processing enterprises. All the companies considered have practical experience on digital platforms.