Leavitt's Diamond: Understanding the factors involved in change

Using Leavitt's Diamond to explore the impact of change in an organization.Leavitt’s Diamond or the Leavitt Business Diamond is a model that can be applied to and used for change management. It gives insight into a company’s critical success factors and was developed in the early 1970s by the American professor and organizational psychologist Harold Leavitt. According to the Leavitt Diamond Model, the success factors required to accomplish change are Structure, Tasks, People, and Technology. In the model, these four factors are placed in a square shape and interconnected, thus creating a diamond shape. This is what the model owes its name to. There are other comparable business models shaped like a diamond, the best known of which are those by Michael Porter and Edward Lawler III.