Increasing the competitiveness of the development of small enterprises based on the formation and spread of digital business processes

The subject of the study is the theoretical and practical aspects of the development and improvement of the competitiveness of small enterprises on the basis of the formation and spread of digital business processes in domestic small businesses of various fields and types of activity. The purpose of the article is to establish the main types and manifestations of digital business processes in small businesses, their content and competitive advantages, features of organization and management to increase the competitiveness of the functioning and development of small enterprises. The methodological basis of the article is the main methodological provisions of enterprise economics; problem-targeted approach; methods: system-structural analysis and synthesis, historical and monographic, statistical and economic. Results of the article. The competitive advantages of digitalization of business processes in small businesses have been established (optimization, productivity improvement, saving labor, money, etc., unification, improvement of the quality of products and services, etc.). It was determined that this allows us to predict their total distribution in the future. The main types of digital business processes were characterized and the addition of new ones (operations with cryptocurrencies) was substantiated. Manifestation formats, effectiveness and strategic development priorities for the future were developed. Field of application of results. The conclusions and results of the article can be used by small enterprises in the organization of business processes on the basis of digitalization; in the implementation of marketing technologies in the conditions of e-commerce; in strategies for increasing competitiveness. They will be useful in the educational process of economic specialties of institutions of higher education, in the scientific work of students, graduate students, and teachers. Conclusions. In the structure of modern social and industrial and economic activity at the level of small enterprises, digital business processes are gaining more and more importance. They are formed both in traditional activities and in the latest digital economy. However, in any case, they relate to both the main and auxiliary activities; all links of reproduction; provide significant savings due to optimization of the organization, automation, lack of need for premises, equipment, additional employees; reduce the number of errors and other negative manifestations of personal factors and thus work to increase the overall competitiveness of small businesses. Therefore, in the future, their unification by spheres of activity (food production, fashion industry, IT development, etc.) and introduction into the practice of small business management will be of great importance.