Center for State and Corporate Governance Systems. Management of Global Initiatives
The close interconnection between the performance indicators of government bodies and businesses explains the high interest in analysis, forecasting, and management tools that consider these areas of socio-economic relations as a single system.
The relevance of this field served as the basis for the creation of the Center for State and Corporate Governance Systems (CSCGS) at the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics in collaboration with Joint Department with "Avtopromimport", and for initiating a research program in the field of intersystem interaction and modern methods for assessing and managing competitiveness. Currently, the results obtained are used by Russian and international companies (Rosatom, Rostec, etc.), state governance institutions, international organizations, and are widely applied in personnel training and retraining (HSE University, MSU, SPbU, Bauman MSTU, TPU, etc.). Specialists involved in the work are members of the management bodies of major Russian and international companies and serve on scientific, technical, and expert councils of international organizations, ministries, and departments of the Russian Federation.
The main areas of applied activity of the CSCGS are:
- Organizing and performing work to update (develop, improve) development programs for administrative-territorial units and economic entities based on modern approaches and world best practices in competitiveness analysis and management.
- Implementing and improving project management methods and enhancing operational efficiency in line with the goals and objectives of Russia's national projects.
- Developing and executing additional education and professional development projects for specialists under the pool of programs "Competitiveness Management in Modern Conditions", certifying specialists in the field "Expert in Competitiveness Management" ("Master in Competitiveness Management"), and training in master's programs in effective management.
*Programs can be organized at the Client's location, involving local educational institutions, at HSE University in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, or in a distance learning format.
Key results of cooperation with the CSCGS include: increased reliability of planned indicators, reduced costs, and shortened timelines for their achievement.
The databases (knowledge bases) created allow for comprehensive justification of state programs and development projects, monitoring their execution, clear presentation for public discussion, and use within situational centers and decision support systems.
In its work, the Center actively uses and develops 3-contour dynamic models for assessing and managing basic target indicators based on matrices of key competencies (the MKK-model complex). The methodological basis of this model is the principles of the systems approach, the Theory of System Interaction (TSI), and the Theory of Control Systems (TCS).
Analysis of practical interdisciplinary experience allows identifying a sufficient set of requirements in the field of system interaction to achieve the desired balance of stability and efficiency indicators:
- External Consistency: Alignment of the goals of lower-level systems with the tasks of higher-level systems (embeddability).
- Internal Consistency: Alignment of system elements by goals, quality, time, significance, and optimization of resources used.
- Lifecycle Subsystem Consistency: Coordination of three similar subsystems - goal definition, goal achievement, and adaptation to changes (consistency across life cycle subsystems)
Applying modern principles of intersystem interaction and the complex of competitiveness management models, as a specific case of Basic Target Indicators (BTIs), forms the basis for justifying responses to global challenges, which find practical embodiment in the form of global initiatives.
The accumulated historical experience of developing global initiatives, starting from the periods of active
e exploration of new continents in the 16th–17th centuries, the development of automotive and aviation industries, nuclear physics, space exploration, agricultural intensification, information technologies, and artificial intelligence, has justified the need for comprehensive analysis of their expected consequences. This approach allows assessing the impact of the results on a wide range of economic, environmental, and social indicators, while improving the methodological toolkit within the SDG concept will ensure higher forecasting accuracy.
Based on retrospective analysis and existing approaches to developing optimal solutions in technical and socio-economic systems, a methodology for justifying priority development scenarios for global initiatives to achieve the SDGs was developed.
Within this methodology, composite indices are used as integral indicators of sustainable development reflecting the impact of global initiatives on the SDGs. For the purposes of the proposed methodology, it is recommended to use indices developed by leading international organizations and experts in environmental economics and sustainable development, provided that statistical samples are available for at least a decade and the index calculation algorithms are open. The calculated index values are considered as objective functions characterizing variants of global initiative development.
The developed methodology also includes stages for verifying the compliance of the used indices with current external environment indicators and macroeconomic trends. In case significant deviations are identified, adaptation of the calculation algorithms for the corresponding indices is recommended.
Assessing the impact of global initiatives on achieving the SDGs requires creating a large number of forecasting models, which justifies the need to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the indicators used. In accordance with established practices for long-term horizon research that enhance assessment quality, the methodology uses scenario analysis methods to describe parameters characterizing global initiatives.
Special attention during the implementation of the methodology is recommended for forming a set of characteristic scenarios that describe critical (bifurcation boundaries) and typical states of the studied global initiatives. An important aspect is also identifying constraints affecting the practical feasibility of the proposed scenarios. As an initial step, the methodology uses a set of theoretically justified calculated options (scenarios), which are then adjusted according to current indicators of actual resource constraints.
To solve problems of assessing the influence of factor composition on the objective function, principles of vector interpretation of basic target indicator management processes and tools of multi-criteria optimization have become widespread. The methodology is based on generally accepted principles and practices in this field, thereby ensuring comprehensive consideration of the multidirectional influence of global initiative indicators on the SDGs.
The mathematical interpretation of the problem of justifying priority development scenarios for global initiatives to achieve the SDGs in general form, as a vector interpretation task for achieving target indicators, is presented:
The approaches described above and the presented mathematical interpretation of the problem of justifying priority development scenarios for global initiatives to achieve the SDGs serve as the basis for developing the sequence of stages of the proposed methodology.
Materials on managing global initiatives have been reflected in the dissertation research of postgraduate students of Joint Department with "Avtopromimport", have undergone broad discussion, and are noted with implementation acts and positive assessments from leading industry enterprises and organizations.
The Center's work is conducted both in cooperation with representatives of state authorities and within the framework of joint project implementation with leading corporations, Russian and foreign companies. Special attention is paid to the development of domestic engineering, information technologies, and nuclear energy. The methodology for managing global initiatives has been applied in developing strategies for Russian nuclear energy and promising types of renewable energy storage. Currently, the center faces many interesting and promising challenges, which determines its openness and interest in interacting with young specialists whose professionalism will determine the effectiveness of state and corporate governance in the coming decades.