Bowtie Designer

Bowtie Designer is an App enabling you to easily design, manage and share Bowtie Diagrams on the world’s leading enterprise content management platform, SharePoint® Online.

Example bowtie using Data Breach
A very simple bowtie diagram, using IT Data Breach as an example

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What is a Bowtie Diagram?

It’s a visualisation which displays, in a single easily understood picture, how you manage risks. Before and after they materialise. The headline risk or “Top Event” at the centre is surrounded by possible causes (on the left) and outcomes (to the right). So it explains which barriers reduce the likelihood, and how you can mitigate the severity of the outcomes. See more detail in our long-form article at Bowtie Diagram or a quicker summary of the elements in About Bowtie Diagrams

Who uses Bowties?

Bowtie diagrams are used in many areas of work, including:

  • Industrial process safety
  • Information security and cyber security risks
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Aviation safety
  • Finance

The Bowtie Designer App

In under 1 minute…

Is the Bowtie Method Qualitative or Quantitative?

We think sometimes it’s both

Help

Getting and installing the app

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