Our Services 2025
Risk Management Consulting for IDW PS 340, ESG and DORA
As an experienced consulting partner, we combine technical expertise with a clear understanding of your specific needs. Led by senior experts, our team supports you personally—from the first step through to successful delivery. Our approach is down‑to‑earth, transparent, and solution‑oriented: we help you make confident decisions, streamline processes, and meet compliance requirements under IDW PS 340 as well as ESG and DORA—sustainably and in practice.
GRC Software Consulting
We guide you independently in selecting, implementing, and getting the most out of GRC software. From clear requirements and structured RFI/RFPs to demos/PoCs and a successful rollout—tool‑agnostic, practical, and based on solid decision criteria.
Integrated Risk Management
Spot, assess, and manage risks early—practically and close to day‑to‑day operations. We embed a living risk management framework with clear roles, lean processes, and transparent reporting so your organization stays ready to act and can seize opportunities.
Incident and Business Continuity Management (BCM)
Respond quickly and confidently when it counts. We design and establish effective incident management and BCM—roles, playbooks, tests, and exercises—so your organization stays resilient and operations keep running.
Information Security and Internal Control System (ICS)
Protect your business against cyber risks and data loss. Together we develop practical information security strategies and strengthen your ICS—so sensitive data, trade secrets, and digital processes are reliably safeguarded.
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f.a.q.
Any questions? Here are a few of our answers in brief.
We often receive similar questions from clients in our consulting work. This FAQ section answers the most common questions—clear, concise, and directly linked to our services.
What are the biggest business risks in 2025?
The biggest risks in 2025 are not just the “usual suspects” like cybersecurity and supply chains. Rising in severity—and therefore high risk in 2025—remains the political uncertainty around Russia, China, and Taiwan.
- Russia: The war against Ukraine and Western sanctions create lasting uncertainty in energy prices/availability and Eastern European markets.
- China/Taiwan: Tensions around Taiwan have increased again in 2025. China is taking a confrontational stance, Taiwan is preparing defensively, and the US pledges support. Any conflict would hit global supply chains and high-tech industries (e.g., semiconductors) hard.
- USA: The new administration pursues tough tariff policies (“America First 2.0”). The November 2025 presidential election and its impact on trade agreements with the EU, China, and others add further uncertainty.
Helpful sources for current developments and analyses include the German Marshall Fund and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The World Economic Forum (WEF) cites “persistent instability among great powers” and “geopolitical uncertainties,” together with trade wars, as top risks for 2025. Nearly all Chief Risk Officers expect this trend to intensify and point to figures that have continued to rise since 2023.
Which regulatory topics should companies prioritize early in 2025?
The volume of new regulation in 2025 is high—especially across digitalization, sustainability, and IT risk.
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act): Mandatory from January 2025 for financial institutions and their IT service providers, focusing on cybersecurity, ICT resilience, and incident reporting obligations.
EU AI Act: Companies using AI (e.g., for risk scoring, customer communications, or production control) must comply with new rules—particularly for “high‑risk” AI systems—with application starting in March 2025.
ESG disclosure obligations: Despite “Omnibus”-Beschlüsse” decisions bringing some relief to Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), CSDDD, and the EU Taxonomy, the regulations published by the European Commission remain extensive and opaque. ESRS implementation guidance from EFRAG is intended to help, though it remains debatable how far even “simplified” disclosures truly reduce complexity or how they should be met in practice.
What must modern risk management software be able to do in 2025?
Risk management tools face real challenges in 2025:
They need to remain flexible so companies don’t have to reprogram or buy expensive add‑ons every time new laws and regulations (e.g., DORA, ESG, or AI rules) appear. Instead, regulatory requirements should be linkable to control objectives and risks in a flexible way. The tool should draw on a shared data foundation (processes, assets, organizational structure) so each area isn’t working with its own lists and numbers—which only creates chaos.
Not every function works the same way:
- Compliance often needs fast, questionnaire‑based assessments as part of its compliance risk analysis.
- Risk management, by contrast, needs a sensible (and still pragmatic) quantitative risk analysis, scenario analysis, and (Monte Carlo) simulations.
- For ESG risks, a longer time horizon and specific indicators matter, which still must be cleanly integrated into—or linked with—the overall risk inventory.
This poses challenges for most tool vendors. Flexible configuration options are therefore essential. For a classic “likelihood” and “impact” view, a spreadsheet will still do.
Tipp: When selecting new software, look closely at how different methods and requirements are actually modeled in the system and linked together. Simple configuration without programming skills (no‑code/low‑code) is a must!
Risk management software and artificial intelligence
With AI capabilities evolving rapidly, modern risk tools should, of course, keep pace. But AI is not a magic box—it’s a helpful assistant when used wisely.
Futuristic “AI predictions” for company‑specific risks are often speculative. Far more practical and valuable is a tool that uses AI to standardize risk descriptions (e.g., text suggestions based on real-world experience) or automatically propose suitable standard measures—while respecting context (industry, process, cause, control objective, regulatory requirement, etc.).
The best tools in 2025 are neither rigid DIY builds nor pure AI hype—they win by being flexible, understandable, and robust: implementing new requirements quickly, using AI for real productivity gains (not just show), and intelligently connecting different perspectives (e.g., Compliance, ESG, traditional RM).
How consulting truly improves software selection—and which mistakes to avoid?
Real project experience matters—practice beats theory. Professional consulting doesn’t just refine your method; it treats every new tool as an opportunity to question existing approaches, improve them, and fix what’s not working. Good advisors keep the focus on true must‑haves—the capabilities you actually need to meet regulatory requirements and collaborate efficiently across the organization.
Instead of getting lost in “feature overload” and being sold add‑ons no one uses, strong consulting keeps you focused on what really matters.
That includes deep expertise in clean RFI/RFP processes and a targeted, transparent software selection: in the end, it’s not what the brochure promises—it’s how the software performs in day‑to‑day operations. Consultants with real hands‑on experience also help you build cross‑functional concepts that convince stakeholders and create internal allies.
Bottom line: “by practitioners, for practitioners”—and that’s what makes the difference in every software project.