Conceptual content of systemic excellence of an enterprise as a business organization

The article studies the issue of the conceptual content of the systemic excellence of an enterprise as a business organization. In a broad sense, the concept of “excellence” is applied to all spheres of human life and their subsystems, including organizational systems, the class of which includes an enterprise as a business organization to an object, subject, or phenomenon exclusively to provide a particular characteristic of their positive qualities. The concept of “excellence” characterizes the highest limit of positive qualities that an object, subject, or phenomenon can achieve, a particular ideal of a set of these qualities, through the prism of the completeness of their advantages and the absence of disadvantages. The purpose of applying the concept of “excellence” to an enterprise as a business organization is its characteristic, which should reflect a certain level of a set of advantages across the entire spectrum of its activities. It can also be said that in the case of applying the concept of “excellence” not only to enterprises as business organizations but, for example, to a state, culture, region, person, etc., the level of excellence of these systems can be determined by comparing them with each other, provided that a relevant selection of similar objects is made according to the same list of characteristics, manifestations, and parameters. However, this is not the only possible option for determining the level of excellence of a business organization as a system. The study shows that researchers, scientists, and practitioners have dealt with the issues of excellence of economic systems, such as enterprises or business organizations, since the 50s of the twentieth century. This field is relatively new from the perspective of time and space. The theory of organizational excellence has undergone three stages of its development. It is currently at a stage that is constantly supplemented by the latest developments and research results in general. The important fact is how the content of each stage changed: from the spread of the application of a systems approach to the management of organizations and quality management in a narrow application to products to its spread to all functional areas of the enterprise and its subsystems to the emergence of concepts of enterprise management based on systems management and systems paradigms, including based on its systemic state. Today’s stage can be characterized by the advancement and change of emphasis from reductionism to holism in the coordinate system of studying the concept of “excellence” to the enterprise as a business organization. Therefore, we are discussing the system’s excellence, not its subsystems and parts. As a result, excellence is considered from the position of a specific type of relationship with counterparties, which can be achieved only due to a particular state of the economic system and its development, a high level of systemic state. The key idea is the satisfaction of all possible counterparties and stakeholders. The conceptual content of systemic excellence is related to sustainable development, where a high level of systemic excellence in an enterprise as a business organization can be considered a necessary condition for sustainable development. Keywords: systemic excellence, enterprise, business organization, global challenges, systems management, sustainable development.