Does your company have a machine learning strategy? - JAXenter

As of the end of 2017, the top five public companies of the world by market capitalization were Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook -- all digital natives. One of the common traits between these companies is the fact that they deal with 1s and 0s instead of tangible assets and they are in possession of vast amounts of already digitalized business and consumer data. Add on top large R&D budgets, access to elite academic talent, open-mindedness towards systematic experimentation and it is no surprise that, to date, they have been able to leverage machine learning to its fullest by launching numerous internal and end-user facing smart applications. Having noticed these positive examples, by now, most business leaders in other industries have figured out that this machine learning thing really matters; and it ain't going away anytime soon. So the waves of automation and data-driven decision making have recently started crushing on their shores as these businesses slowly but surely make headway with their digital transformation initiatives.