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

question 1

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

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