Monitoring index system for sectors’ digital transformation and its application in China

Abstract

Presently, for the purpose of sustainable growth of the economy, it is a common choice to promote sectors’ digital transformation (DT). However, to credibly monitor the effect of DT on sectoral development, it is necessary to develop a systematic measure for the monitoring sector’s DT. This study provides a monitoring index system for sectors’ DT. First, an assessment framework for enterprises’ DT is introduced, which laid a foundation for the proposed monitoring index system for sectors’ DT. Secondly, a monitoring index system for sectors’ DT is established, which includes 13 monitoring indexes from four aspects, namely transformation stages, single-domain digitalization, integration and interconnection, and collaboration, interaction and mode innovation. A weighted method of interval hesitant fuzzy entropy is also given here. Finally, a panorama of sectors’ DT in China is derived by applying the proposed monitoring index system, and a prediction that the level of sectors’ DT in China will continue to grow in the next three years is made by gray predication.