Mike Jones-Smith, a Division Manager for Rubon Corporation, Told His

Multiple Choice

Mike Jones-Smith, a division manager for Rubon Corporation, told his subordinate, "Sheila, because this is your first year of budget planning for your department, I need you to ________, defining a best-case, a worst-case, and a plausible-case business, or middle-ground business, outlook. The plausible-case business outlook will be what you will use for budget planning."

A) do some buffering
B) develop competitive intelligence
C) create an environmental scan
D) give me some benchmarks
E) produce different scenarios