Category: Civil-military cooperation (CIMIC)
What can companies learn from the military world, and vice versa? Command, resilience, hybrid and cognitive warfare, alliances: perspectives that bring together defence and the life of organisations. Read our perspectives on organisational resilience
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International relations: golden goose or fool’s gold?
Crises follow one another, experts proliferate, academic programmes multiply. International relations and security and defence have become a “market”. But a market for whom? And what do companies really need?
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Sustaining the transatlantic relationship and supporting NATO’s transformation through associations
Is NATO facing a “rupture”, or a new stage in its history? Drawing on organisational change practice and on the history of Euro-Atlantic associations, a proposal: to transform the Alliance…
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NATO, an organisation like any other?
Invited to the Public Forum held alongside the NATO Summit in The Hague, I looked at this key event with the eye of a practitioner of collective dynamics. Is the…
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The coalition of the willing: a matter of mobilisation (and transformation)
Behind the phrase “coalition of the willing”, which has emerged in support of Ukraine, lies a challenge that many companies and organisations face: a question of mobilisation, deployment and agility.
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The sociodynamics of European conservatives – and others
Sociodynamics is a science, a practice and a philosophy of relationships. Commonly used in companies, it can also guide collective action in many other contexts. This time, applied to the…
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Once we know… how do we actually do it? Four ways of implementing a decision, with varying degrees of success
In companies as in international relations, I observe different ways of implementing decisions once the diagnosis has been made. I recommend and support some of them. I advise against others.
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There is no ideal organisation… (only the need to decide and to work better together)
There is never an ideal organisation, only collective ways of working and interactions to optimise. A seminar on the “operational level” of the French armed forces offers cross-cutting lessons for…
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Cognitive warfare: the role of companies
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have been facing a genuine “cognitive war” that targets civil society beyond the armed forces. The lessons we can draw from it also…
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Matrix organisations: unfit for combat?
A French Court of Audit report on the Armed Forces Commissariat Service puts its “matrix organisation” under the spotlight. Is this model, shared by many large civilian organisations, fundamentally unsuited…
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The times of change
When supporting an organisation, a team or an individual, the question of time often comes up in conversations, questions and doubts…
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Ukraine, a magnificent sociodynamic actor
Sociodynamics is both an interpretive framework and an art of setting actors and organisations in motion. Closer to the philosophy of the game of go than to that of chess…
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“Hybrid warfare”: what role for companies?
The concept of “hybrid warfare” emerged some ten years ago and has taken on particular relevance with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But one major part of our daily lives…