Most large organisations think full digital sovereignty is unrealistic, Capgemini finds
Digital sovereignty has arrived in the boardroom and has immediately been downgraded.
Some 93% of large organisations have now discussed it at the board level, and 59% say full digital sovereignty is not a realistic goal, according to a Capgemini Research Institute survey of 1,300 business and technology executives published on Tuesday.
What has replaced the ambition is a narrower one. Two-thirds now define sovereignty as resilient interdependence, meaning selective control over the technologies that matter most combined with partnerships for everything else, rather than owning the stack.
That definition is markedly more popular in Europe, where 75% take it, than in the United States, where half do.
The gap between the two continents is not only definitional. Asked what sovereignty is for, 56% of UK organisations and 52% in continental Europe describe it as risk mitigation and resilience-building, against 41% in Asia-Pacific.
In the US, the majority answer is...
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