When was the last time your board actively reviewed compliance risks? Do your teams have a unified view of governance and compliance, or are they still operating in silos?
Fragmented GRC approaches leave critical risks hidden, slowing down decision-making and creating costly surprises. As businesses expand globally, adopt new technologies, and navigate evolving regulations, five key GRC challenges will test organizational GRC maturity. In 2025 and beyond, leaders who turn these challenges into strategic drivers will strengthen compliance while gaining a competitive edge.
5 GRC Challenges Every Leader Must Address and Strategies to Win
Here are the top 5 GRC challenges organizations face in 2025 and beyond, with targeted solutions provided by the ServiceNow GRC platform:
1. Regulatory Compliance Complexity
Businesses face an ever-changing landscape of regulations (e.g., GDPR and HIPAA standards). Manual tracking creates inefficiencies and increases the risks of non-compliance.
ServiceNow GRC Implementation:
- Automates regulatory tracking and mapping to controls.
- Provides a centralized repository for compliance frameworks.
- Real-time dashboards to ensure continuous compliance.
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2. Siloed Risk Management
Risk data is often scattered across departments, making it hard to identify enterprise-wide risks and trends.
ServiceNow GRC adoption:
- Consolidates risk information into a single platform.
- Enables company-wide risk visibility with heatmaps and reports.
- Automates risk assessments to standardize methodologies.
3. Inefficient Incident & Issue Responses
When issues or risks are identified, organizations struggle with slow, inconsistent responses due to manual processes and poor coordination.
The integrated ServiceNow GRC platform can:
- Streamline and automate issue tracking and remediation workflows.
- Provide escalation rules to ensure timely responses.
- Integrate with ITSM and SecOps for cross-functional response.
4. Lack of Real-Time Risk Visibility
Executives and boards often lack real-time insights into risk posture, making it difficult to make proactive decisions. Implementation of ServiceNow GRC:
- Provides real-time dashboards and reporting for leadership.
- Enables continuous monitoring of controls and risks.
- Aligns risks to strategic business objectives for informed decisions.
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5. Resource-Intensive Audit Processes
Audits are often manual, time-consuming, and prone to errors due to dispersed evidence and lack of standardized processes. ServiceNow GRC module help organizations:
- Automate evidence collection and testing.
- Provide audit-ready reporting.
- Standardize audit processes across the enterprise, reducing cost and time.
Why ServiceNow GRC Outperforms the Competition
ServiceNow GRC isn’t just about compliance, it’s a strategic advantage. It delivers unmatched visibility, automation, and actionable insights, helping organizations transform risk management into a growth enabler. Here’s why it outshines the competition:
- Unified Platform for End-to-End Control: ServiceNow GRC breaks down silos by consolidating risk, compliance, and policy data in one centralized interface, giving leadership a clear, enterprise-wide view of risk.
- Automation that Saves Time and Costs: By automating controls, assessments, and audits, ServiceNow accelerates decision-making, reduces human errors, and cuts audit costs by up to 40%.
- Real-Time Risk Intelligence: Boards and executives can act proactively with dynamic dashboards, interactive heatmaps, and continuous monitoring that turn raw data into strategic insights.
- Future-Ready for Emerging Risks: From AI governance and ESG reporting to operational resilience, ServiceNow GRC equips organizations to address evolving risks faster than legacy systems.
- Measurable Business Impact: Case studies show dramatic improvements in governance visibility, user experience, and operational efficiency, turning GRC from a back-office function into a strategic driver of growth and trust.
Comparatively, ServiceNow GRC doesn’t just manage risks, it transforms them into measurable business value, giving organizations a competitive edge today and preparing them for the challenges of tomorrow.
Turn Risk into Insight with ServiceNow IRM: Your Command Center for Enterprise Risk
While ServiceNow GRC helps organizations manage policies, controls, and compliance obligations, modern businesses face a rapidly evolving risk landscape that goes beyond compliance. That’s where ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM) comes in, providing continuous, enterprise-wide risk visibility, real-time monitoring, and proactive threat management.
By combining ServiceNow GRC and IRM, organizations can:
- Unify risk and compliance data across all departments and business units.
- Automate workflows and control testing, reducing audit effort by up to 40%.
- Gain real-time dashboards and predictive insights, enabling faster, informed decisions.
- Turn risk from a reactive cost center into a strategic growth driver, aligned with business objectives.
Together, GRC and IRM transform fragmented risk management into a single, intelligent platform, delivering both operational efficiency and competitive advantage.
From Fragmented Risk to 98% Visibility: A Fortune 500 GRC Success Story
A Fortune 500 financial services company faced siloed risk processes, inconsistent frameworks, and patchy visibility across its many business units, leaving governance fragmented and risks hidden.
V-Soft implemented ServiceNow GRC, centralizing risk and control data, automating workflows, and mapping relationships through UCF integration. Today, our solution assists this firm in achieving a 98% governance clarity and 60% improved user experience, all from a single unified platform.
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