S5E3: 2025 ORM Vendor Compass - The Enterprise Resilience Engine
Resilience isn’t a binder anymore. It’s a live system that has to perform under pressure. We pull apart the 2025 IRM Navigator™ Vendor Compass for Operational Risk Management (ORM) to show how ORM moved from back-office compliance to the execution engine of enterprise resilience. The stakes are massive. They include billions in spend, tighter regulations across the US, UK, and EU, and a rising demand for continuous, auditable proof that controls actually work when services fail.
We break down where ORM sits inside integrated risk management and how it turns risk appetite into daily action across business continuity, incident and loss event operations, KRIs, EHS, and deep third-party and supply chain risk. Then we unpack the four structural drivers forcing change: buyers rewarding measurable outcomes over feature checklists, resilience defined as end-to-end service delivery, assurance-grade automation with transparent trust layers and data lineage, and the hard convergence of TPRM with continuity and incident response as vendor failures directly hit customer experience. If one in three major incidents involves an external partner, vendor monitoring can’t live on the sidelines.
To make this practical, we map the vendor landscape across two dimensions—solution coverage and level of integration—and explain three categories that align to your maturity curve. Integrators like Riskonnect and IBM OpenPages centralize claims, continuity, RCSAs, KRIs, and loss events under strong governance for complex enterprises. Accelerators such as ServiceNow, Hyperproof, and Safe Security embed controls and monitoring into existing workflows fast, moving teams from coordinated to embedded. Pace setters like Fusion Risk Management, ProcessUnity, and Origami Risk deliver targeted wins in resilience mapping, third-party risk, and incident-to-claims operations.
The takeaway is simple: aim for defensible operational assurance without drowning in manual work. As AI-native runbooks evolve by simulating impacts, selecting responses, and triggering mitigation with audit-ready evidence the question becomes whether your current telemetry and control data will meet disclosure-grade standards. Subscribe, share with your risk and operations teams, and leave a review with your biggest challenge. Where are you on the maturity curve, and what proof do you still need?
Podcast Episode Chapters
0:00 - Setting The Stage: ORM’s Rise
1:33 - Money, Markets, And Mandates
2:24 - From Policy To Proof
3:03 - What Modern ORM Actually Covers
3:55 - PRAC: Objectives That Drive ORM
4:35 - Maturity Curve: Coordinated To Embedded
5:24 - Driver 1: Outcomes Over Features
6:31 - Driver 2: Resilience Is Operational
8:36 - Driver 3: Assurance-Grade Automation
9:34 - Driver 4: Third-Party Risk Convergence
10:21 - Mapping The Vendor Landscape
10:53 - Integrators: Heavyweight Orchestration
11:36 - Accelerators: Embed Speed At Scale
12:45 - Pace Setters: Targeted Quick Wins
13:35 - How To Choose Your Path
14:33 - North Star: Towards Autonomous IRM
15:08 - The Evidence Standard Is Rising
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