KPMG Risk & Resilience Survey
Risk and resilience capabilities will separate winners from losers
Emerging risks and threats to resiliency are rapidly growing in number, scope, and severity throughout the business world. So how are US organizations managing risk as well as maintaining security and resilience in this fast-moving, volatile, and unpredictable environment? The 2025 KPMG Risk and Resilience Survey suggests that for many organizations, the ability to manage threats and disruption is a work-in-progress.
This new era of volatility is not the time for half-measures and “good enough” initiatives. The KPMG Risk & Resilience Survey shares c-suite sentiment, insights, and advice on enhancing risk management and resilience for long-term success. Explore the survey report to learn -
- How organizations are structuring their processes and collaborating across functions
- The approaches, strategies, tools, and capabilities that drive fast, agile, continuous risk management
- Practical actions to build a more resilient enterprise.
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Key themes and statistics
Centralized or integrated risk and resilience structures drive performance.
Decentralization of risk and resilience leadership does not result in better risk and resilience management. Having an integrated risk and resilience strategy, governance, process, and technology does.
48%
of the organizations have centralized risk and resilience structures, but...
Only 26%
have strong collaboration and a holistic, cross-functional view of risks.
Stakeholders expect leaders to take greater accountability for risk and resilience.
Earning support for an integrated risk and resilience program requires a clear problem statement, cohesive strategy, and alignment of multiple stakeholders.
Only 41%
are strongly confident that their C-suite recognizes the business risks associated with a critical process outage or failure.
Growing use of specialized technology, AI, and advanced analytics increases resiliency.
Tools alone do not address potential risks or resilience challenges, but having an intentional technology strategy that aligns with the organization's mission can help them determine and respond to threats faster.
65%
are using advanced analytics.
68%
are using specialized technology, AI, or advanced analytics to manage risks.
Organizations still face significant barriers to effective risk management.
When risk strategies fail, it is not usually because employees do not want to do the right thing. It is often due to the lack of integrated risk insights coupled with siloed communication and transparency that discourages intelligent risk taking.
> 2/3
of organizations face moderate to strong barriers when managing risks.
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