Cognitive automation gives employees the freedom to innovate

When creating a culture of innovation, many organizations face hurdles related to talent, capital and time. CIOs and the enterprises they lead are now at an inflection point in the way that humans and technology work together in the business ecosystem, with companies utilizing cognitive automation as a way to shift workflow dynamics and unleash the potential for every employee to be an innovator. The opportunity for cognitive automation is so great that industry analysts predict that by 2020, smart machines will become a top five investment priority for almost a third of CIOs. By mimicking human activities such as perceiving, inferring, gathering evidence and probabilistic reasoning, cognitive systems can perform tasks that have historically required human intelligence and situational analysis. The co-existence between human employees and cognitive systems is creating a new class of digital labor that can enhance human skills and expertise, allowing employees to innovate constantly. Working within this new ecosystem, generalists can behave like specialists, and less experienced employees can perform like seasoned veterans.