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