JULIAN TALBOT
The Bow-Tie Field Kit
How to run a bow-tie session, the twelve mistakes that ruin them, and a checklist for reviewing someone else's.
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A Results-Driven Method
The RMBOK Guide explains the bow-tie method. This explains the practice — what actually happens when you put eight people in a room and try to build one.
Most bow-ties fail for procedural reasons, not conceptual ones. The method is not hard. Running it well is.
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Inside the kit
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Running the session — who to invite, how long it really takes, and the order of build (start in the middle, not the left)
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The twelve most common bow-tie mistakes — from events that aren't events to controls that are hopes with a name
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The bow-tie review checklist — 26 checks across scope, controls, escalation and integration, for auditing your own analysis or someone else's
Eight pages. No theory you already know. Free.
Julian Talbot is the lead author of SRMBOK and RMBOK, with over 35 years' experience in risk and governance across government, Defence and regulated industry.