The real sector of the macroregion’s economy: problems of digitalization

The author considers the issues of digital transformation of industrial enterprises in macroregions (especially in depressed ones), due to the need to adapt to the conditions of the transition of the entire industry to a new digital technological level. He proposes to use a process approach to solve problems, which involves the decomposition of the production process with the subsequent digitization of each element, which will allow business entities to increase production volumes, improve its quality, raise the technological level of production and competitiveness of the enterprise, strengthen its position in the market.