Chapter 10: Enhancing Organizational Agility Through Socio-Economic Management Consulting: A Case Study

The concept of agility has been developed by Williams, Worley, & Lawler (2013) through noticing that many companies had hard times in implementing the strategy. Tom Williams and Steve Wheeler (2009) observe that large companies are efficient in the process of designing strategies, but have a hard time in implementing strategies. Cummings & Worley (2008) (Center of Effective Organizations) have demonstrated that efficiency results from the ability to learn and change. Cummings et al. have carried out a research scheme on agility which shows that the ability to change is difficult to learn, as evidenced by the high failure rate of organization change processes. This paper is aimed at showing the contribution of the Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) to management consulting focused on agility enhancement.