AI and Machine Learning as part of doing business

The financial services world is in a state of flux. Incumbent financial institutions are fumbling around in search of the next big idea that would catapult them to the front, or at least save them from collapsing on their largess of amassed inertia. We need a strategy that would get us off out fat ass and move forward. But as the saying goes "strategy is great until you engage the enemy and you change your direction". Paraphrasing Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Chief of Staff of the Prussian army before World War 1 and architect of "The Theory of War" we must evolve beyond deterministic battle plans and instead favor resilient strategies that can adapt to situations that occur in real-time.