The executives at Dizzy & Sons Corp. are developing strategic plans to address plausible future situations like rise in the prices of cotton and synthetic fabrics by 20 percent, appreciation in the value of the dollar, increase in the cost of labor by 30 percent, and increase in demand for the companys products. By doing so, the company will be well prepared with its planned responses if any of these situations occurs in the future. Thus, Dizzy & Sons Corp. is employing ________ as the approach to the development of strategy.

	a.	top-down strategic planning
	b.	reverse engineering
	c.	scenario planning
	d.	pattern recognition