Facing the black swans of “antifragile” organizations: new contributions (digital resilience, cyber resilience, out-of-frame risk management, cyber security)

Research Day - October 5, 2023

The Centre d'Investigation et de Recherche sur la Résilience Organisationnelle (CIRERO), in collaboration with the SDRT-IC3 laboratory at CNAM Paris, is organizing a research day.

Scientific purpose of the day

Recent crises have highlighted the need for organizations to develop their ability to cope with uncertainty when faced with out-of-frame crises or black swans (Lagadec, 2006; Taleb, 2013). These crisis situations are an opportunity to study how organizations have acted to cope with such shocks (Godé et al., 2020; Sein, 2020). Organizational resilience has been widely applied since the mid-2000s (UN, 2005). We see that crises have changed, that they are out-of-frame (Lagadec, 2010) and that our organizations need to become antifragile (Taleb, 2010). Faced with this new turbulence (Pariès 2020), organizational resilience is opening up to other fields of expertise (Suarez, Montes, 2021), such as digital resilience, cyber-resilience, the contribution of information systems and new technologies (Frimousse, Peretti, 2021).

Digital resilience is considered a resilience factor (Chair, Bounid, 2022). The technical robustness of IS to guarantee business continuity or the ability of organizations to organize themselves to resist cyberattacks (Rothrock, 2018) are all considered forms of digital resilience by the authors. Professional literature also mobilizes the notion of digital resilience to discuss cyber resilience (https://www.bearingpoint.com/fr-fr/publications-evenements/publications/resilience-cyber/). Similarly, the fields of resilience with regard to multiple organizations, micro, meso or macro (Besson, Rowe, 2011), of ideological or non-ideological forms (Boisselier, 2023), whether real or virtual (Geoffroy 2019), strategic, defensive, offensive, market or non-market, are evolving in the face of multiple accelerated shocks (Teneau, Pautet, 2018).

This research day, the first step towards a colloquium, will provide an opportunity to reflect on these new trends in the resilience of our organizations.  

Specific themes of the day 

• Cyber resilience: contribution to business continuity, protecting against attacks.

• The contribution of information systems to organizational resilience

• Operational resilience in the context of geostrategy.

• The French Navy's infrastructures, “antifragile” organizations.

• The resilience of organizations dedicated to critical situations.

• The contribution of digital and cyber resilience to crises outside the framework.

• The resilience of ideological organizations.

• Digital transformation for an “anti-fragile” organization.

• Intelligence and resilience: anticipating and reducing uncertainty.

• Defining and democratizing concepts (dependability, cybersecurity, cyber-resilience, digital resilience, antifragility, off-frame crises, black swans).

• The contribution of digital technology to influence and information warfare, and towards national defense resilience.

Organization of the day

• Welcome to the seminar (8:30 am)
• Word from the directors (9:00/9:30)
• Plenary sessions (9:30 to 11:00) 
• Round table (11am to 12:30pm)
• Parallel sessions (2pm - 4pm)
• Summary of debates (16h - 17h)