The Covid-19 pandemic, whose effects on the forms of social organi-
zation are still far from being fully explored, has opened the door to forms of
experimentation unprecedented in their speed and extent. The pandemic outbreak
has required immediate responses from organizations that have drawn on both
intentional and unintentional repertoires. In particular, the use of IT architectures
was characterized by unintended responses that nevertheless allowed organiza-
tions to respond to the demands of health systems and bureaucracy to document
population protection activities. The work we present here confirms that in the
case studied, the benefits manifested themselves most clearly when organizations
were able to be flexibility-by-deviation by drawing on infrastructural projects
considered by ordinary management to be non-strategic until the arrival of the
pandemic
