Fewer than one in four leaders say their organisations are ready to manage geopolitical disruption, according to Kyndryl's 2026-27 Readiness Report. The company has now unveiled a sovereignty approach aimed at that gap, centred on a new capability called Kyndryl Sovereign Step-in Readiness.
Step-in Readiness works with customers to define specific sovereignty scenarios, set roles and governance, write operating procedures and runbooks, and test whether they can take on defined operational responsibilities. Customers choose how far to go, from preparing people and processes to more advanced levels with localised tools and automation and rising operational independence, including local control of data.
Depending on requirements, those tools can run in the customer's own IT environment or on a regional instance of Kyndryl Bridge, the company's platform that uses integrated data and AI for visibility across complex IT estates. Kyndryl said regional instances are being designed to support greater localisation and digital autonomy.
The capability complements Kyndryl's Sovereignty Readiness Assessment, which helps customers evaluate dependencies across their technology environments, and sits beside work with its alliance partners.
“Maintaining critical IT operations is fundamental to business continuity, and organizations need to plan for sovereignty as they would any other risk to their operations,” said Xerxes Cooper, global leader of Kyndryl Delivery.
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