Research on Bottlenecks and Improvement Paths of Digital Transformation in Higher Vocational Colleges from the Perspective of Organizational Inertia: Oriented by the Demand for New Quality Productive Forces

Abstract

The development of new quality productive forces has raised higher requirements for talent training models, governance systems and service capabilities of higher vocational colleges. Digital transformation has become a vital approach for higher vocational colleges to improve governance efficiency, optimize the allocation of educational resources, and strengthen their capacity to serve regional industries. Nevertheless, during the digital transformation process, higher vocational colleges are generally confronted with such challenges as rigid organizational structures, institutional path dependence, insufficient data governance capacity and lagging digital cultural development, which generate prominent organizational inertia and hinder the effectiveness of digital reform. Based on the theory of organizational inertia and oriented toward the demands of new quality productive forces, this paper analyzes the formation mechanism and action mechanism of organizational inertia in the digital transformation of higher vocational colleges, constructs a four-dimensional driving model of "technology empowerment – organizational restructuring – ecological collaboration – evaluation guarantee", and explores the paths of digital process reengineering and institutional innovation combined with the practical scenario of innovation and entrepreneurship incubation bases. The study concludes that higher vocational colleges should break through organizational inertia by upgrading digital infrastructure, optimizing organizational structures, promoting school-enterprise collaborative innovation and constructing a digital governance evaluation system, so as to advance their digital governance capacity and provide support for cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents adaptable to the development of new quality productive forces.