$1.$ Identify a product category produced by your current$/$previous organization. For this product category, identify the target market segment, and the competitors in the market. Identify your operations strategy $($i$.$e$.,$ focus on cost$,$ quality, time, or flexibility$).$ Compare your operations strategy with that of your close competitors in the market. Compare the operations of your organization with your close competitor$($s$)$ and show whether the operations of your organization and your close competitor$($s$)$ are aligned with their respective operations strategies. If they are not, then what changes would you recommend to them?

Useful references:

a$.$ Case discussion on American Connector Company $($A$)$

b$.$ Case discussion on A Truck Is Not a Cookie: Matching Supply with Demand at Mahindra Truck and Bus Division

c$.$ Article: The Focused Factory by Wickham Skinner, HBR