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QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. What is corporate strategy? How is operations strategy related to the corporate strategy? Explain. 2. What are the various strategic actions possible from operations function? List them and discuss each of them. 3. How would operations strategy for a service industry be different, if any, from that for a manufacturing industry? Cite an example and explain. 4. Strategy may be the same, but the approaches could differ with differing results. Explain this statement with examples. 5. Explain Kenichi Ohmae's 'key success factors theory and discuss its relevance to manufacturing strategy. 6. Perform a SWOT analysis for your organisation. What strategic insights did you gain? Discuss. 7. How can you turn a threat' faced by your organisation into an opportunity ? How will you overcome the 'weaknesses'? 8. What is Michael Porter's thesis in his Five Forces Model? Explain. 9. What is 'flexibility in operations function? Can it be one of the strategic weapons? Explain your response. 10. How are people important in an operations strategy? Discuss what needs to be done in your organisation and in India, in general. 11. If a company is a "technology leader', what strategic support would it require from its operations function? Discuss. 12. What has accounting function got to do with operations strategy? Explain. 13. How could the operations strategies be different for organisations that have different focus: (a) Customer focus (b) Technology focus (c) Product focus Explain the operations strategy in each case. 14. Why is efficiency' versus 'effectiveness of operations' debate important from the strategic angle? 15. What is competing on time? Explain. 16. What is globalisation? What are the effects of globalisation on strategic aspects of operations? Discuss. 17. Link up environmental management and operations management in a strategic framework. Explain your response