The article considers the methods of personnel assessment in modern Russian and foreign companies, such as the method of management by objectives, performance management, method of personnel assessment «360 degrees», «assessment center». «As-sessment сenter» has studied in more detail. This method is a set of procedures that de-termines the success of a person in the professional sphere, the parameters of which have been laid down by the competence model. This method has proved itself as a powerful stimulating factor in the training of workers. Its peculiarity consists in the individual ap-proach, which determines the interest of respondents in training. At the same time, the evaluator can show the employee his hidden potential and possible growth zones. At pres-ent time, it is necessary to search new innovative approaches to personnel assessment.

The article considers methodical approaches to the industrial business value management. The possibility of the value-oriented approach application for effective management of the indicators level, characterizing the industrial business value, has investigated. The concept «value-oriented management» specified by authors, has given. A set of estimated indicators, between which the narrowness of interrelation was defining, has offered, and their influence on business value has considered. A new paradigm utilization of the quantitative and qualitative indicators management, characterizing the industrial business value, is offering.

In the terms of the economic crisis, it is important issue for many Russian and for-eign enterprises - to maintain the stability of functioning. The article discusses the relevant methodical aspect of assessing the economic security level of the organization. The require-ments for safety indicators, their types, the procedure for determining the threshold values are considered in detail. The comparative characteristic of quantitative and qualitative indicators has presented, the approximate structure of the economic security indicators of the enterprise has considered. The formula for calculating the integral safety indicator and its graphical in-terpretation have given.

The article considers the industrial organization management issues in the context of the implementation concept «Industry 4.0». The overview of key production and information technologies, providing a competitive advantage for an industrial or-ganization in the field of digitalization, has given. The necessary conditions for the ef-fective interaction of service and production units within the production company on the base of the Internet of things, additive production and reverse engineering have spec-ified. Methodical recommendations on the organization and control of production pro-cesses, based on the concept of lean production and cross-sectoral cooperation in an in-dustrial organization have given.

Formed in the nineteenth century the Socialist idea, as well as the implications of revolutionary events in Western Europe, particularly the capitalist way of development in Russia, international situation in the world has meant that our country has gone on the road socialist construction in the understanding, which was then available to leaders of so-viet socialist transformation. In many ways, political and socio-economic life of the young socialist State demonstrated the embodiment of ideas, which for decades have been formed under the socialist utopian thought domestic revolutionary democrats.

The modern Russian model of the pension system has developed as result of the pension reform carried out in 2002, incorporating insurance principles for the formation of a pension and a funded component. In 2004, further pension reform determined the possibility of managing the funded pension. The results of the reform are contradictory and cause a lot of controversy, but the undoubted result is the emergence of new institutional players in the collective investment market and a new segment of the financial market. 2017 was the sixteenth year since the beginning of the radical reforms of the Russian pension system. The article presents an analysis of the competitive environment of the emerging market for investing pension savings, its effectiveness and the main results of its operation over the current period.

This article is devoted to the issues of directive voting of a member of the board of directors (supervisory board) as a representative of the owner (shareholder) in econom-ic societies. This instrument of corporate governance is most widespread in companies with state participation (in particular, whose shareholder is the Russian Federation). The use of di-rectives is ambiguous. Among the main arguments for its application is the reduction of risks of the adoption by members of the collegial body a decision that runs counter to the interests of the shareholder (participant) of the company.

The article opens basic approaches to definition of the intellectual capital in the conditions of innovative economy. The category of the intellectual capital from positions of cause and effect interrelations and interconditionality in development of the enterprise has investigated. Classification of the intellectual capital has given to several main groups from a position of his quality and the size, depending on ability of the enterprise to receive return from the invested capital and on extent of the received return from his use in general.

Modern production implies qualitatively new strategies of doing business, which bases on the effective use of information technology. The development of qualitatively new business models involves not only the transformation of technological infrastructure, but also the qualitative restructuring of personnel activities. The transition to the new conditions of activity constitutes a rather complex process in its content, which is accompanying by the transformation of the organization’s infrastructure, changes the system of production interactions, forms and quality of work. The article reveals the main mechanisms of digital transformation of business, as well as identifies the problems that have arisen in the process of transition to new business conditions.

The article presents the analysis of main problems associated with innovative product startup. Discussion has focused on the analysis of marketing solutions among all the variety of innovative startup problems. It has stated that marketing begins not from first sales, but much earlier, at the stages preceding the startup. The approaches to identification of first consumers of innovative product have analyzed. The principle based on the cyclic process for product creation, evaluation sales results and finding opportunities for its improvement has described. Particular attention has directed to the choice of innovative products pricing principles. Problems of innovation pricing have identified.

The main problems of introducing disciplines that form competencies of the digital economy in the education process have revealed, the ways of solution have proposed. As a hypothesis, main reasons are the low proportion of faculty members, who retrained to form competencies of the digital economy and the lack of mechanisms for selection promising research areas and development in the field of digital technologies. Removal of causes will allow receiving a system effect and triggering off a multitude innovation economic processes.

The relevant issues of implementation at the enterprises of the industry of system of monitoring of their production economic activity from the point of view of assessment and the forecast of changes of key performance indicators under the influence of external and internal factors have considered. It has proved that monitoring of development of the enterprise is an indicator of success of their activity and reflects degree of appeal to investors. By results of the conducted research, the authors of the article have created the main directions of monitoring of the enterprises for identification of industry leaders.

Contemporary approaches to energy efficiency management in construction and the need of constantly reducing the specific final consumption of energy resources have considered. The requirements for buildings and structures in the field of energy efficiency have provided. The classification of energy-efficient buildings and structures has carried out. The features of the organization of energy saving system in the residential sector have studied, and the scheme of establishing the basic standards of energy consumption taking into account climatic conditions and the introduction of modern engineering, technological and structural solutions has considered. The ways of forming an effective management system of energy-efficiency on the example of the residential sector have recommended, the scheme of organization of an effective energy efficiency management system in construction has proposed.

The article analyses the results of the first stage of the energy strategy of Rus-sia for the period up to 2030, as well as several reasons that significantly influenced the changes in the political situation in Russia and in the world, which led to the emergence of significant external and internal challenges that influenced the implementation of the strategy. The dynamics of development of oil and gas industry, oil refining, electric pow-er and gas-oil chemistry has considered. It has noted that in General, the implementa-tion of the Energy strategy until 2030 for the formation of oil and gas complexes in the Eastern regions of the country and the development of the hydrocarbon potential of the continental shelf of the Arctic seas and Northern territories of Russia within the frame-work of the implementation in 2017 has carried out successfully.

The article reveals the problem of the development of manufacturing industry in Angola as a factor of ensuring the competitiveness of the country’s economy. Scientific views on the concept “competitiveness” have considered. The state of competitiveness of the Angolan economy from the point of view of modern methodological approaches has analysed. The author identifies the reasons for lack of competitiveness of the Angolan economy on global competitiveness rankings, gives recommendations for the development of manufacturing industry in Angola as a mechanism to improve the competitiveness of the country’s economy. Besides this, the problems of public economic management in Angola have identified, which would be solving for the effective development of the manufacturing industry in the country.

The issues of improving the methods of measuring the scales of shadow activity in the sectors of the Russian economy have considered. The problem aspects of practical use of the classical method of physical inputs in measuring the scales of shadow activity in the sectors of the national economy have identified. As an alternative to the classical method of physical inputs, its modified version has proposed, based on accounting of the production costs components that dominate in the structure of intermediate consumption. Based on experimental calculations, estimates of the scales of shadow activity in selected sectors of production of goods and services of the Russian economy have developed.

This article examines the significance of isolated energy systems for the Russian Federation. The dependence on expensive imported fuel in isolated energy systems and the need to develop alternative energy programs and energy efficiency of isolated systems have highlighted. The existing renewable energy sources in the territory of isolated energy systems have analysed and plans for their development have considered. In particular, an example of the implementation of energy-efficient autonomous hybrid power plants has presented by modernizing existing diesel power plants with the installation of solar panels.

The article substantiates the need to use in assessing the activities of modern companies cost and resource-target approaches. From the standpoint of a systematic approach their essence, structure and content have revealed. The analysis of the possibilities of using in the resource-target assessment available in the literature classifications of resources and goals has made. Their classification in accordance with a systematic approach to the company, methodological aspects of assessing their size and potential have given. The relationship of resources, potential and capital of the company. has determined.

The measurement method economically of the value added received by the enterprise from growth of profitability of the industry average level has considered. Three main approaches are a part of this method: «custonomics» directed to assessment of the capital which is brought on the enterprise by constant consumers, «workonomics» directed to assessment of the human capital and «supplynomics», directed to value added assessment on the supplier. The method allows to estimate the value added of the organization created by the main components of its intellectual capital.

This article considers risks of the Industry 4.0. Main features of their influence on industrial organizations and national economy in general have marked out. The main directions of development of digital economy in Russia have designated. The summary risk matrix of the Industry 4.0 has created. Levels and subsystems of risk factors of industrialization influencing the modern industrial organizations have allocated. Need of formation of methods and instruments of identification, diagnostics and risk management of the Industry 4.0 within COSO has proved.

The article describes the current state of innovative development of universities, their interaction with organizations of the real sector of the economy. The reasons for the lack of inter-action between science, education and business have examined. The positive changes in the case of application the cooperative potential of science, education and business have adduced. The anal-ysis of state stimulation and creation of such cooperative relations has conducted. In particular, the creation and development tool of engineering centers by which accelerates the process of innova-tion in universities and in the country as a whole, has considered. The relevance of the topic is de-termining by the current socio-economic situation in the country. At this stage, the task of the na-tional innovation system is to restore cooperation between universities and enterprises of the real sector of the economy for the implementation of global tasks.

The challenge of the development of the retail electricity markets competition in order to improve the efficiency of electric power industry in Russia has considered. The modern Russian retail electricity markets model does not provide the adequate level of competition in retail energy sales sector has revealed. This article studies specific features of the Russian retail electricity markets organization. The level of competition in retail energy sales sector and the competition impact to the retail electricity prices have estimated. The competition prohibiting factors for retail electricity markets have suggested.

The article considers tendencies of development of interactions of organizations that arise in modern conditions. Currently, the prevailing types of interaction determine the General conditions for activities in an economy. Therefore, the trends in the development of interactions are extremely important to manage the successful operation of any organization. In the changing due to the economic crises conditions, which include dramatically increasing the uncertainty of the environment and a General slowdown, a tendency, consisting in the increased interest of companies to move from rigid competitive relations to the balance relations of cooperation and competition has identified, as well as few other important trends. The use of the identified trends in governance processes will contribute to the success of organizations and the overall development of the economy.

The necessity, possibility and conditions of performed by Universities research and development works evaluation, as well as research & development work disclosure as a value appraisal object, economic value added multistage process and proposition of justified methods of its valuation have revealed. The value of research and development work performed by government-run educational institutions - Universities has examined. The necessity of the authors’ paper has conditioned, that Research and development works performed by Universities become the evaluation objects of the digital economy. The specific factors of research and development work evaluation are uniqueness, innovativeness, riskiness, affect not only their cost, but also require specificity in their evaluation. It is necessary to harmonize accountable appraisal tools for the evaluation of research and development work.

The relevance of the topic depends on the lack of an integrated approach to assessment of investment risk in infrastructure of Russian public utilities. The authors have developed the proposals for methodology of comprehensive risk assessment for public utilities` investment. This methodology helps to define the organization of this activity. The proposed methodology has developed taking into consideration the logical framework and temporary structure of risk assessment activities for investment projects in Russia’s utility sector and the features ofthese projects. The study determines the composition of activities in the area of comprehensive risk assessment for public utilities` investment, suggested the distribution of responsibilities between the core actors of this work. It also describes means and the methods of comprehensive risk assessment for public utilities` investment, its desired results.

The article examines the experience of building open platforms by leading global IT companies. The features of the current strategy for transforming the business model of Sberbank, based on the creation of a financial and technological open platform, that ensures interaction with the financial market and other market sectors have identified. Research strategy allows in maximum extent to attract and retain the attention of the client, providing him a «fine-tuning» and personalized targeted offers of financial and non-financial products and services.

The article considers the main features of remote banking services as a means of improving the activities of banking institutions and gaining competitive advantages at the current stage of development of the national banking system. The main types of remote banking maintenance have highlighted. The main types of risks, associated with servicing in the remote mode for both banks and their clients have identified. The factors that hamper the development of remote service in Russia and the potential ways to overcome them have determined.

The article reveals the possibilities of digitalization in evaluating the effec-tiveness of a development bank. The conditions for the successful operation of the de-velopment bank, the circumstances that adversely affect these banks have generalized. The experience of the Asian Development Bank in using a multi-level system for eval-uating the effectiveness of its activities, based on a set of indicators and indicators has analysed. The author proposes to use such elements of digitalization as big data and their analysis, project models, artificial intelligence in evaluating the effectiveness of the work of the development bank. The results of Vnesheconombank’s activities al-low us to recommend it to use the experience of the Asian Development Bank, related to the evaluation of its activities.