Specialty "Economic cybernetics": who can work?

The entrants come to university differently, choosing the specialty "Economic Cybernetics". "Who can work with a diploma?" - interest at once percent ten of them, the most perspicacious. But most people still think this day. Many are guided by the entrance examinations (mathematics and language), others are attracted by the prestige of the economic faculty, the third is inspired by the sweet prospect of becoming managers (after all, the Department of Economic Cybernetics is studying this process).

However, those who come to study in groups 0609 immediately encounter uncompromising system training, which includes blocks of mathematical, economic, general educational subjects.

Economic cybernetics as a subject of study

Without the right to relax, the foundations of future specialization and vocational education are formed in the first and second courses. Economics, accounting, matanalysis, probability theory; All these are bricks in the structure of knowledge of the future bachelor's or master's degree.

And only from the third year for the students-cybernetics the real entrance to the specialty begins.

Students embark on a serious study of computer disciplines, mastering real modern software tools, which is used by economic cybernetics. The specialty of modern cybernetics assumes the possession of the actual software: Microsoft MSDN Academic ALLIance, applied packages Statistica, CLIPS (expert programming system), VenSim, Xelopes (PPP of intellectual analysis), etc. The training process involves computer continuous training of the future specialist. Modern methods of analysis allow us to optimally solve management problems through a comprehensive assessment of the influence of various factors on the performance of the economic system.

Young people realize by the level of solved problems that cybernetics is not just a science of management, but a methodical and practical guidebook in how to manage the most diverse in complexity of economic systems.

Analytical basis, mastered by a student cybernetics

The faculty of economic cybernetics is in demand due to the promise of the profile profession of education. She is really prestigious. After all, cybernetics is created at the junction of informatics, economics and mathematics.

Knowledge of mathematics and computer science are universally recognized in the world as a tool for the analysis of specific economic systems: enterprises, firms, organizations, regions, industries) and the formation of technologies for their management.

Students who study EC, get fundamental knowledge in the field of economics, programming, mathematical analysis. They acquire the necessary analytical basis, characterized by the following sub-elements:

· Cybernetic modeling of economic and social systems, hierarchy of models;

· Complex assessment skills of complex, hierarchical systems and subsystems, integral evaluation;

· Tasks of motivated classification;

· Management and control in organizational systems;

· Optimization of information flows when solving management tasks;

· Correct perception of constructive information and entropy;

· The coordination of goals in hierarchical systems, the construction of goals;

· Management in hierarchical systems.

Thus, a person using the methods of economic cybernetics is a system analyst, in demand both in anti-crisis management (the art of making the right decisions in difficult situations) and in the ability to predict the economic challenges themselves and their intensity.

Who can become a graduate of the Faculty of "Economic Cybernetics"

The set of knowledge and skills of the graduates of profile faculties, demanded on the labor market, is represented by economic cybernetics. Work on this specialty ideally (with an active competitive labor market) assumes today a rather wide range of positions:

- Bank Economist-Analyst;

- Analyst of IT and communications;

- system analyst of the company (enterprise);

- administrator of networks, databases;

- Head of the financial and economic unit;

- head of IT department;

- Teacher of Informatics and IT;

- Deputy Director for IT;

- Director of a small high-tech enterprise.

Applicants participate in competitions, where economic cybernetics (a profession of intellectual and creative) is welcomed among the general knowledge and skills of the candidate.

Deformations of employment in a transitional society

It would seem that technologists who know how to set goals and achieve their fulfillment are waiting for the post of system analysts, developers of economic information systems. In countries with a developed market system - yes, under the conditions of the transition system this list is much longer.

Where there is a greater percentage of probability that a student or a graduate of the specialty "Economic Cybernetics" will become a manager or an economist. Who can work? The answer is the real statistics of the employment of the best graduates of one of the universities.

Ieh 32 people - excellent students - 13 became economists (managers), 7 - engineers (programmers), 2 - scientists, 6 - top managers (administrators); 2 - IT specialists of Western companies; 2 - project coordinators.

Obviously, economic cybernetics is a specialty that correlates with the level of development of the productive forces in the state. Naturally, the employers of the country, which exports more than 90% of the products of engineering and computer technology (the level of Germany, Japan), will present a significant demand for cybernetics specialists. And the employers of the countries in whose exports the share of machine building does not exceed 5% (the current level of the former CIS countries) to a greater extent offer specialists in cybernetics the position of economists.

The natural positioning of cybernetics-economists in the labor market

Is this correct from the point of view of scientific and technological progress? After all, just as a forge of new management personnel, experts in technology, economic cybernetics was in demand. "Who can work after graduating from the corresponding faculty?" - this question is reasonably worried by the entrants. Unfortunately, there are few direct orders for graduates-cybernetics. But this does not mean that they do not exist. Unfortunately, but fortunately, graduates-cybernetics have to act, proceeding from the principle "the salvation of drowning people is the work of the drowning themselves". Rethinking the above statistics on the employment of excellent students, we formulated several winning strategies for them today:

· project manager;

· The head of a small science-intensive enterprise (he is able to act as the project manager in one person, and this is his strength);

· IT specialist working in the market of foreign IT companies;

• Career abroad.

Why are they winning? The answer is simple. A specialist cybernetics, following them, as they say, "kills two birds with one stone": develops in the main specialty and receives a decent salary.

The prerequisite for this is real, because the course of study in the direction of "Economic Cybernetics" really corresponds to the trends of the NTP. The direction of the university educational process is not in doubt - this is the formation of top managers of the new generation, who possess both deep economic knowledge and modern technologies.

Characteristic features of labor of economists-cybernetics

Indeed, in order to achieve breakthrough business indicators, you should:

- deeply understand both the economic process itself, and the technologies for its implementation and accounting;

- Reformat the above processes into blocks that can be programmed;

- create (allocate) adequate hardware;

- create highly effective procedures (program), eliminating duplication of information;

- to train the specialists who operate the cyber system;

- carry out a pilot project, increase efficiency;

- Establish an effective system of support;

- launch the cyber system into mass use, periodically produce motivational activities for the personnel.

Project management of the banking system as a field of activity for the specialty EC

For economists-mathematicians to date, one of the real spheres of activity is the management of projects in the banking sector.

At the present time, when there is a process of optimization of banks, in them at the project level the economic cybernetics is really in demand as a field of technological knowledge. Who to work in the banking sphere for bachelors and masters of cybernetics? Project managers and project team members in the central offices of banks (there are no such posts on the periphery). The banking project is always specific: it is designed for a specific subject area.

A lot of projects are regularly implemented in the sphere of corporate, retail, small and medium business, office work. To promote them in the state of banks, permanent departments and offices are created. Usually the project manager, the manager and the project team participate in the project implementation. The latter also includes representatives of the profile line departments of the bank, in which the future cyber system will operate.

Features of work on a banking project

The life cycle of such a project consists of three phases: pre-investment, investment and post-investment. First, the concept of the project is justified , during which goals, funding, feasibility and planning are measured. The development of the project determines the list of works, the assignment of performers, calendar schedules, design and estimate documentation, the necessary contracts with suppliers and contractors. Then, respectively, the execution and completion phases. The operational phase terminates the project cycle, at which controllability, reliability, control, feedback is achieved.

Small (target) projects and megaprojects are practiced in the development of the banking sphere (consistently achieved goals of international, national, regional, intersectoral nature in the implementation of many coordinated small projects). The most diverse in the complexity of the task in the banking sector is able to solve economic cybernetics. You do not need to search for successful projects. They immediately catch sight of the success of the bank, by the way customers go there ...

For clarity, we will give an example of a small project. A powerful bank attracted a lot of enterprises and organizations to card salary projects . The first goal was achieved - increasing liabilities on card salary accounts.

The second step is to centralize the enrollment of salaries. This task is solved in the form of project implementation. It involves professionals who are oriented in IT technologies, operational and accounting card accounting. They develop methods for creating a cyber solution to the project task, using banking technologies for the transfer and protection of information, the method of relational tables, the experience of creating optimal program interfaces for performers. The created technology is preliminarily tested on a pilot project, to which one or several directorates of the bank are attracted.

Logistics from the perspective of employment opportunities

However, trade and logistics also demand for projects created and implemented by cybernetics. Currently, the transition type of the economy of Russia, Ukraine determines the growth in demand for software development. And among the most promising - work on the profile of EC. At the same time, there is a growing demand for skills of mathematical modeling of economic processes by employers. Such conclusions were reached by the international agency CareerCast in 2014.

Let's recollect at least dispatching control system of a fixed-route taxi, simultaneously covering several cities. It is developed and followed by IT companies, in which, by definition, carriers of the specialty "economic cybernetics" are in demand. The subsystem of operational accounting of drivers on routes, routing, classification of customer calls, working in parallel with the communication system, taking into account the receipt of funds, the formation of reports ...

Reception of the order for the dispatcher is automated. The price of the service is calculated centrally, taking into account the length of the route and the tariff. The dispatcher in parallel with his work sees the work of his colleagues. A user-friendly interface allows the dispatcher to quickly navigate. Orders are divided into three categories:

· Preliminary;

· "Hot";

· Running.

Programmatically from the category of "preliminary" orders after 30 minutes go to the category of "hot".

The dispatching service of a taxi is just one example. Today, cybernetics, realized in firm software and hardware products, binds state institutions, branch enterprises of branches, geographically dispersed chain stores, pharmacies, gas stations, etc. into a single managed mechanism.

Demand for networks of trade enterprises

Graduates of the faculties "Economic Cybernetics" are functionally in demand in the "headquarters" of network trading companies. Why? Judge for yourself: it is estimated that effective network trading companies are able to capture about 90% of the market. It is clear that this requires investment. But after all, brains are needed for this! Let's imagine the real problems of network trading, its main links:

· Consolidated, logistically justified purchases of goods at the best prices;

· Increase of profitability by strict regulation of the work of a single central warehouse of a grid company;

· Constant monitoring of minimization of use of office premises and optimization of commodity stocks due to effective work of transport;

· Optimization of the control apparatus.

Thus, considering the economic system of a network company, we really see the demand for skilled labor in the specialty that we are studying.

Conclusion

What hinders the progress of economists-mathematicians today, determines to them mainly a place in auxiliary, highly specialized economic links (after all, the social mission of the direction of this kind of activity, like economic cybernetics) is leveled out?

The prospects are still ahead. The reason is mentality: in the conditions of stagnation and crisis, when management is carried out mainly in the "manual" mode, the chief is more often in the style of management by the administrator than by the technologist. Let's be honest. The priority of paternalistic leadership leads to the fact that cybernetics specialists often find themselves in an unenviable position: "I see everything, I understand how to do it, and I can not influence anything." Their vision of problems is always secondary. Primary are the directives of the leadership.

An important problem is the absence in the state of an effective program of attracting young professionals in the industry. As a result, gourmets-employers put a bar unbearable for graduate students: work experience in the specialty. But no experience! There is knowledge, and the personnel officer can not adequately assess them. And come to get a job for a graduate cybernetics so no one will ask questions that are his skate - on factor analysis and adaptive management. Accordingly, his employment will not correspond to the specialty. Knowledge of software products is forgotten, but programs become obsolete, and the effect of education is reduced ... There really is something to ponder ...

We are forced to admit that economic cybernetics is still a profession for the future. (Is not this the reason for the "brain drain"?) Its flowering and, accordingly, the maximum demand for masters-cybernetics - is ahead, when investors pour into the post-Soviet countries, when creativity will become the norm of life when the doors of domestic "Silicon Valley ", when in honor when appointing to the office will become not kinship, ties, partisanship, but the ability to creatively and effectively manage economic structures of varying complexity.

The reason is in macroeconomics. We need sufficient and highly efficient investments in industries that determine the production potential. We need transparent control over the expenditure of funds and a decent payment for the personnel participating in the projects. The competition of leaders in the proper sense of the word is needed.

The effectiveness of investment, unfortunately, is a scourge of countries with economies in transition. They built an uncountable number of financial schemes, enriching the oligarchs and forming shadow financial flows. Unfortunately, justice here has not yet said its weighty word ...