AI Evaluation and Investment Decisions

This course equips you to make informed decisions about generative AI investments. You'll learn to appraise AI use cases by balancing their potential for "Hard ROI" against organizational readiness and technical debt. The curriculum covers how to conduct rigorous vendor and tool evaluations within the Microsoft ecosystem, moving beyond surface-level feature checklists to assess architectural fit and long-term total cost of ownership. You will learn to structure robust investment cases that account for the Verification Tax and ongoing maintenance costs. Throughout the course, you will produce e