Course unit

The Company and its territory

Last updated: 22/02/2024

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Course Director(s):

LAMY Damien

General Description:

Faced with a new context where risks are multiplying, the vulnerabilities of territories and companies are at the center of concerns. In a globalized economy where activities are increasingly interdependent, companies and other local authorities face risks that threaten their sustainability if they do not anticipate and prepare to manage so-called exceptional situations that can abruptly interrupt, partially / totally, their activity. With regard to the properties linked to territorial intelligence, the resilience of companies depends on the ability to identify and assess risks, to increase robustness by developing prevention and protection systems, to provide appropriate responses in crisis situations and to take action to ensure their sustainability.

These factors include, in particular

• an approach based on risk management, not on risk elimination, and on anticipating disruptions, whether sudden or slow, through monitoring and forecasting;
• the mapping of all the threats to limit their impact, to enable essential applications to function and to forecast the continuation of activity and the company's ability to adapt strategically;
• the construction of vulnerability/resilience indicators, which are levers for consolidating the competitiveness of companies and the attractiveness of the region and reducing its fragility.

Key words:

Entreprises Resilience Risks Strategy Territory

Number of teaching hours

24

Fields of study

Economics, Management, Human and Social Sciences

Teaching language

French

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the unit, the student will be capable of:	Classification level	Priority
To know and identify the methodologies and the vulnerabilities of the companies and the territories, with regard to a spatio-temporal framework;	1. Knowledge	Essential
Apprehend the competitive and competitive environment of the company and the territory with regard to the identified vulnerabilities	2. Understand	Important
Use strategy as a management tool to anticipate and manage "negative" risks and seize "positive" risks to turn them into opportunities;	2. Understand	Essential
Be able to formulate a business continuity strategy by consolidating the company's competitive position.	2. Understand	Essential

Learning assessment methods

Percentage ratio of individual assessment			Percentage ratio of group assessment
Written exam:	0	%	Project submission:	0	%
Individual oral exam:	0	%	Group presentation:	50	%
Individual presentation:	0	%	Group practical exercise:	0	%
Individual practical exercise:	0	%	Group report:	50	%
Individual report:	0	%
Other(s): 0 %

Programme and content

Type of teaching activity	Content, sequencing and organisation
Course	Reconcile companies and territories to identify their vulnerabilities to risks ✓ Risk mapping ✓ Risk management tools ✓ Methodology for diagnosing territories / companies: vulnerabilities / resilience factors
Course	Rebounding in the face of risk: conditions for resilience ✓ Methods for analyzing the strategic capacity of companies ✓ The levers to build a territorial strategy (i.e. territorial intelligence) ✓ Towards a collective and cooperative intelligence Territories / Companies
Course	Consolidating competitiveness Territories / companies ✓ Governance and business continuity ✓ Agility and competitiveness, factors of sustainability for companies and businesses