Organizations begin to think about risk and compliance for many different reasons. Whatever your reason, taking a phased approach to growing your risk and compliance maturity is critical. If you just visualize the end state and try to get there in one step, it’s like running a marathon without any previous training. You’re going to fail, and there’s a good chance you’re going to hurt yourself. On the other hand, if you move forward in discrete steps, you build organizational capabilities that propel you from stage to stage—increasing your chances of success and accelerating time to value by realizing benefits throughout your risk and compliance journey