Checklist for Data Resilience, Control, and Strategic Autonomy: Reframing a Complex Sovereignty Approach for Practical Progress

This IDC Perspective offers a strategy to reframe organizations' strategy for digital sovereignty toward a more pragmatic approach, emphasizing strategic autonomy, data resilience, and control. It advocates for European and IT leaders to design and transform their IT environments with the principles of data control, resilience, vendor diversification, and adaptability. A data resilience checklist can help organizations mitigate geopolitical risks, enhance security, and foster innovation. "Strategic autonomy and data resilience can take the sovereignty conversation forward with practical, technological mechanisms in place for control and adaptability in a volatile digital world. True strategic autonomy hinges on resilient data architectures and ironclad data control that ensures trust and future-proofs enterprises against geopolitical shifts and risks," said Archana Venkatraman, senior research director, Cloud Data Management and Governance, IDC Europe.