Creative Thinking and Development of Professionalism by Procurement Specialists in the Context of Digitalization

Abstract

The paper presents the scientific idea that the problems of sustainable socio-economic development of the country as a whole and such an important segment as public procurement in particular, may be successfully addressed provided the theoretical validation, development and implementation in practice of training of the procurement specialists of technologies for development of creative thinking. Creative thinking, as one of the leading digital competencies, contributes to the solution of the problem of labour market saturation with the specialists ready to address the task of creating a new technological basis for the development of economy, social sphere, etc. Professional competences of procurement specialists built with reliance on creative thinking help to solve every day professional tasks at a new qualitative level.