From analogue to digital tools of business control: succession and transformation

The article describes results of research work of conceptual framework and control practical tools at transition to digital economy. The fundamental principles of digitalization based on convergence of basic information trends in their state-of-the-art digital format are analysed. The best practices of Russian and foreign companies are examined and systematised. The author's view of combination of analogue and digital approaches in modelling, communication means and information technologies is given. Digital products typology is defined; their evolution is traced from digital copies of traditional products to their digital twins. The role of digitalization is substantiated in generating new markets and new conditions of their functioning, change of the existing ones, and also in generation of new approaches to analysis, forecast and control. Routes of transformation of control tools at invariability of control basic functions are outlined.