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

Publisher IDC
Published Aug 21, 2025
Length 11 Pages
SKU # IDC20329105

Description

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.

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11 Pages

Executive Snapshot

Situation Overview

From a VUCA to a BANI World

Reframing the Challenge: Focusing on Data Control, Resilience, and Strategic Autonomy to Overcome the Sovereignty Impasse

Pillars of Strategic Autonomy: Data Resilience, Data Control, and Technology Mechanisms

A New Approach to Data Resilience

A New Approach to Data Control

Retaining Strategic Autonomy (Beyond Data)

Advice for the Technology Buyer

Build to Adapt Rather than Build to Last

Digital Natives' Approach and Attitudes to Autonomy and Resilience

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