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The IRM50 All-Stars Take the Field
Wheelhouse Advisors Releases 2025 Lineup on MLB's Biggest Stage
On the same day baseball's best step up to the plate at the 95th MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta, Wheelhouse Advisors has released its all-star roster: the 2025 IRM50.
And just like the Midsummer Classic, this announcement celebrates top-tier talent, position-specific excellence, and strategic versatility—only this time, the field is Integrated Risk Management (IRM), not Truist Park. Wheelhouse's IRM50 recognizes the 50 most influential technology and consulting providers driving the future of IRM. The timing isn't just symbolic—Wheelhouse Advisors is also headquartered in Atlanta, and this year's report marks the broadest, most globally representative IRM50 to date.
Integrated Risk Thinking: The Mindset That Unlocks the Power of the IRM Navigator™ Model
Today’s businesses face unprecedented complexity. Rapid technological advances, evolving regulatory environments, escalating cyber threats, and global operational challenges have rendered traditional risk management approaches obsolete. Siloed processes, reactive responses, and fragmented risk oversight are no longer enough to safeguard modern organizations.
Wheelhouse Advisors has identified that effective risk management in today’s landscape requires not only powerful tools and methods but, more importantly, a fundamentally new way of thinking. This strategic shift is what we call Integrated Risk Thinking (IRT)—the essential mindset that allows organizations to leverage risk as an integral part of strategy, decision-making, and competitive advantage.
The AI Wild West is Over — Why IRM Must Now Govern the Frontier
When John A. Wheeler and Avivah Litan collaborated as colleagues at Gartner, they shared a simple but powerful conviction: technology without governance invites risk, and risk without context invites disaster. That belief feels more urgent than ever in the age of generative AI.
This month, Avivah returned to the spotlight with a compelling Gartner webinar titled “A Partner Framework to Manage AI Governance, Trust, Risk and Security.” It laid out a comprehensive vision for AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM), exposing the vulnerabilities of current AI adoption strategies and presenting a future where organizations no longer treat AI oversight as optional.
But here’s the problem: most companies are still stuck in a fractured model of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). And the rise of autonomous, agentic AI systems is about to make that dysfunction terminal.
When Encryption Isn't Enough—A Sidewalk Interview and a Global Wake-Up Call
I was in Washington, D.C., when the story broke. Reports surfaced that U.S. officials had used Signal—a consumer-grade encrypted messaging app—to coordinate sensitive military operations in Yemen. I was finishing a dinner meeting after a full day of engagements when my phone rang. It was the BBC reaching out for immediate commentary on a fast-developing national security story.