The AI Playbook for Business Analysts

A Practical Guide to Using AI for Business Analysis

Miles Draper

You already know AI could take work off your plate. What you don't have is a way to use it on real analysis tasks without wading through theory or sorting hype from what actually works. The AI Playbook for Business Analysts closes that gap. Miles Draper shows you how to put AI to work on requirements, data, and decisions, with prompts and workflows you can run the same day. Inside, you'll find step-by-step prompting techniques built for precision, methods for turning interview transcripts into clean requirements, approaches to data analysis and diagramming that cut the drudgery, and a full chapter of templates for automating repetitive BA tasks. There's also practical guidance on validating AI output and handling ethics, privacy, and risk, so you stay accountable for what you deliver. By the last page, you'll have a personal playbook of prompts and workflows tailored to your practice. Start with one chapter, one task, one prompt.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• The Analyst's AI Advantage
• Setting Up Your AI Toolkit
• Prompting for Precision
• AI-Assisted Requirements Elicitation
• From Transcripts to Requirements
• Data Analysis Without the Drudgery
• Modeling and Diagramming with AI
• AI for Stakeholder Communication
• Decision Support and Trade-off Analysis
• Automating Repetitive BA Tasks
• Validating and Verifying AI Output
• Ethics, Privacy, and Risk
• Scaling AI Across Your Practice
• Your AI Playbook: Templates and Workflows
• About the Author