{"product_id":"the-defensible-decision-a-guide-to-ai-assisted-business-analytics-9798184294315","title":"The Defensible Decision: A Guide to AI-Assisted Business Analytics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAI can draft a chart in seconds. The analyst still owns the decision it supports.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Defensible Decision: A Guide to AI-Assisted Business Analytics\u003c\/i\u003e gives analysts, managers, and MBA students a practical discipline for working with AI-generated reports, dashboards, and visualizations. A chart is not defensible because it looks polished or appeared quickly. It is defensible when it serves a named audience and decision, follows principles the analyst can explain, and survives a specific check.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book teaches visualization principles first, drawing on Kirk, Knaflic, Tufte, Few, and Wexler. It then shows how to direct Power BI Copilot and related analytics surfaces without accepting the first plausible draft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will learn how to: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrame the work with a six-field Business Requirements Document: audience, decision, question, comparison, time window, and success criterion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurn analysis into an audience-ready argument through context, story, chart selection, focus, and accessible visual design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse the CSAR loop-Crystallize, Scope, Assemble, Refine-to direct and correct AI output\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVerify Copilot reports, AI visuals, and data-question responses before they inform a decision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreserve provenance, check fairness, name the chart's decision boundary, and disclose AI's role\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten for\u003c\/b\u003e analysts, managers, MBA students, and business-intelligence professionals who need charts that remain credible after the presentation ends. This is not a Power BI tool manual or a generic prompt book. It stays at the decision-and-direction layer so the discipline outlives the interface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompanion resources at thedefensibledecision.com include the Chart Gallery, Prompt Library, downloadable datasets, Business Requirements Document templates, chapter resources, and current references. For guided application, \u003ci\u003eThe Defensible Decision: Practice Workbook\u003c\/i\u003e provides chapter-matched cases, rubrics, independent problems, and real-work exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author.\u003c\/b\u003e Dr. Fabio Correa, DBA, writes fiction and nonfiction about human judgment and the boundary between human and artificial minds. He is Director of Business Analytics at Microsoft and creator of the AI Readiness Scale (AIRS). 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