Strengthen Your Organization’s Digital Sovereignty

You need tangible ways to assess your organization's current posture and make meaningful advancements. This blueprint shows how to turn that pressure into a modernization advantage.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

A digital sovereignty mandate can be the supercharger needed for a silo-busting, enterprise-wide modernization strategy. Progress on digital sovereignty requires working comprehensively across the pressure zones and X factors that you identify. CIOs must lead the implementation of digital sovereignty through practical operational next steps.

Impact and Result

Guide public sector modernization with a new layer of strategic intent.
Define digital sovereignty as a practical, actionable mandate.
Translate broad political priorities into practical IT decisions.

Strengthen Your Organization’s Digital Sovereignty Research & Tools

1. Strengthen Your Organization's Digital Sovereignty Storyboard – Understand the process available to strengthen your organization's digital sovereignty posture.

Understand top insights, global methodologies, and how diverse jurisdictions advance digital sovereignty. Learn about the Info-Tech framework to advance digital sovereignty and explore various workshop- and call-based implementation support options. Use the information in this document to prepare to use the Digital Sovereignty Prioritization Tool and Executive Communications Guide.

2. Digital Sovereignty Prioritization Tool – Identify which pressure zones matter most to your organization and generate next steps to advance your digital sovereignty.

This tool suggests five operational next steps to tangibly advance digital sovereignty in each of the ten pressure zones, which collectively make up the "levers to pull" for public CIOs:

Data Residency and Localization
Cybersecurity and Compliance Standards
Data Access and Control
Sovereign Cloud and Infrastructure
Operational Monitoring and Transparency
Interoperability and Open Standards
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks
Domestic Procurement
Digital ID and Citizen Data Control
Workforce and Talent Capacity

3. Digital Sovereignty Executive Communications Guide – Share your operational priorities with various internal and executive audiences.

This framework helps CIOs, CTOs, and senior digital leaders communicate their organization's digital sovereignty priorities after completing the four-phase Guided Implementation or the individually led Digital Sovereignty Prioritization Tool. It equips leaders with clear, evidence-based narratives to brief executives, ministers, and teams on why these priorities matter, what they mean in practice, and how they will guide modernization.

Move sovereignty forward with practical action.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Understand Digital Sovereignty

Call 1: Set context and scope.

Guided Implementation 2: Review Digital Sovereignty Globally

Call 1: Conduct global benchmarking and current state assessment.

Guided Implementation 3: Use Initiative Prioritization Tool

Call 1: Analyze prioritization.
Call 2: Design top initiatives and value metrics.

Guided Implementation 4: Communicate to Your Organization and Action Next Steps

Call 1: Develop communications and executive alignment.
Call 2: Institutionalize and monitor.

Author

Andy Best

Search Code: 109032
Last Revised: December 4, 2025