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AT&T Analysis
Lawrence Sports may not be as big of a company as AT and T; however, they can benchmark AT and T’s working capital management techniques in order to grow and sustain in the sports equipment manufacturing and distributing industry. Lawrence Sports could look to either invest in or merge with another successful sports equipment manufacturer and distributor in order to meet the demands of their customers. Furthermore, Lawrence Sports could do some market research to determine the latest technologically advanced product that would be the most useful to their customers. This will put Lawrence Sports ahead of their competitors.
IBM Analysis
As a sports equipment manufacturer and distributor, Lawrence Sports markets its products through the world’s leading retailer, Mayo Stores. Lawrence sources all its material from their business partners, Gartner Products and Murray Leather Works (UOP, 2007). Lawrence Sports could also use collaborative innovation to build a business or financial model, improve operational effectiveness, and market their products and services much in the same way that IBM continues to use these internal and external working capital management methods in their success to identify growth in their industry. However, in order for Lawrence Sports to embrace this effort, it must first acknowledge the capacity to revamp itself as technology and client needs develop so that it can shape its business/financial model to handle these disruptive allocations.
Wal-Mart Analysis
In the Lawrence Sports simulation, a number of concepts were used in order to improve the business working capital. The concepts include cash flow ...