Machine learning: How emerging technologies can help people get better at their jobs

In the drive to improve productivity and business performance, one approach with great untapped potential is to harness metadata, machine learning, and process automation together in enterprise solutions smart enough to optimize themselves. We already have the necessary components. What we need to do is assemble the components in solutions that can learn, iterate, and improve with each iteration. Such solutions have powerful potential to make people better at their jobs in a multitude of ways -- by automating mundane tasks, reducing errors, and even detecting fraud, to name just a few. Let's start with metadata, or information that describes data to make it easier to find, categorize, and use.