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."

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The instruction given by the division manager is to produce different scenarios, including a best-case, a worst-case, and a plausible-case business outlook. This falls under the task of producing different scenarios, making choice E the best answer. The other choices (A, B, C, and D) relate to different tasks, such as buffering, competitive intelligence, environmental scan, and benchmarking, respectively, which are not explicitly mentioned in the instruction.

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