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Wal-mart has three areas that they have to balance out: who makes the decisions for the company, performance evaluation, and compensation structure that is called organizational architecture. When these three areas of a company are not balanced then the company is not performing to their max potential. Wal-Mart.com was struggling and the person whom was in charge to make decision changed the structure of the website to bring in more consumers which made the company increase their sales. (Chew, Donald & Gillian, Stuart. 2005).
When the internet was developed companies developed websites which they sold merchandise on. This was a way for the company to market their merchandise and this allowed the customers to shop from their home. Companies that postponed developing a website had a lower rate of success from the web sales. Wal-Mart was a company that waited to develop a website (Jain, 2008).
The company was having a great of problems with the website sales and they needed to......

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