Digital Sovereignty - Stewart James, Greenway Andrew

In an era of fractured geopolitics and AI-drivenacceleration, ‘Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide’ addresses a criticalquestion facing leaders: will you decide your organization’s digital future, orwill it be decided for you?Sovereignty in a digital world is something you build toyour design or lose by default. However, it is a myth that one can achievesovereignty through isolation. This book argues that, in an interconnectedworld, protecting your interests and staying connected are the same strategicchallenge. Written by the team that built the UK Government DigitalService, this book is grounded in experience – from high-stakes contractrenewals to untangling IT failures. While much of the digital sovereigntydebate focuses on geopolitics and abstract policy, the approach here ispractical. This is a book designed to help leaders to do, not just think. Through real-world case studies and scenarios, the authorsexplore how organizational inertia and vendor lock-in can gradually erodeinstitutional agency in governments, corporates and other institutions. Regaining digital sovereignty is not about trying to bring everything in-house;it is about building the ability to make deliberate choices and the capacity toexecute them. Digital Sovereignty goes beyond describing the risks ofdependency to providing a practical framework for reading a situation, choosingwell and making investments that last. This book is written for the leader whois ready to stop kicking the can down the road and start choosing their future.