ERM has a perception problem, and in 2025 it becomes a performance problem. Many programs still optimize for completeness, annual reporting cycles, and beautifully formatted board packs. Boards increasingly optimize for something else: faster, defensible decisions under volatility. The market’s new standard is measurable and uncompromising: time to decision and time to evidence. If your ERM platform depends on manual synthesis to tell the story, the story arrives late, and leadership is forced to decide on partial facts.

In this episode, we unpack the 2025 IRM Navigator™ Vendor Compass for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and explain why ERM must operate as the enterprise decision layer. That means converting risk appetite into quantified thresholds and escalation logic, sustaining a living scenario portfolio that can be refreshed and reused, and reusing verified evidence from ORM, TRM, and GRC to produce board-grade outputs with traceability.