CSU Advantages and Disadvantages of Focus Strategies Management Exercise

I’m working on a management exercise and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

1. What is an example of a firm that you would consider to be “stuck in the middle”? What would your advice be to the executive in charge of the firm?

2. Research a company that has gone bankrupt or otherwise stopped operations in the past decade because the strategy was “stuck in the middle” of otherwise a viable generic business-level strategies. Could its demise have been prevented?

3. Describe the nature of focused cost leadership and focused differentiation.

4. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of focus strategies