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.
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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.