John Kay’s Obliquity (essay version). Preface begins discussing a very interesting topic: “Our customers didn’t really use these models for their decision making… they used them internally or externally to justify decisions that they had already made. They were playing what I now call Franklin’s Gambit, after the American polymath Benjamin Franklin. He wrote: ‘so convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one had a mind to do’.”
But the rest of the book doesn’t really talk about this. You’ll have to read this excellent article in FT about this topic: “Beware of Franklin’s Gambit in making decisions” (paywall? gist).