A Business Leader's Guide to Machine Learning Centric Digital

The overwhelming majority of IT executives in North America either have machine learning programs in place now or plan to have them in the near future. As in the related fields of artificial intelligence and data mining, machine learning is rapidly becoming as essential to 21st century business as email or Wi-Fi.The two leading implementations of machine learning today are: predictive analytics, which reduces uncertainty in decision-making; and recommender systems, which increase cart sizes by suggesting other items that match user preferences. A survey presented by 451 Research and Blazent found that more than two-thirds (67.3 percent) of execs either have or plan to have predictive analytics in place. Nearly the same number of execs (66.7 percent) currently use recommender systems or have implantation projects on the books. Once machine learning systems are in place, execs have found countless use cases for them across all enterprise.