Most organizations don't ignore GRC, they invest in it. They buy tools, adopt frameworks, add concierge GRC services. Audits pass. Dashboards stay green. The failure becomes visible later, when scrutiny increases or something goes wrong, and leadership realizes they built audit enablement rather than a risk program.
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A program manager discovered three weeks before a government contract deadline that a vendor handling CUI had never signed a data handling agreement. The program passed every internal milestone review. When GRC functions are embedded into the program management lifecycle rather than bolted on at the end, problems like this surface during planning rather than during a compliance audit.