Rise of the Strategy Machines

While humans may be ahead of computers in the ability to create strategy today, we shouldn't be complacent about our dominance. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. Editor's Note: This is the seventh in a special series of commissioned essays MIT Sloan Management Review will be publishing in Frontiers over the Spring and Summer of 2016. Each essay gives the author's response to this question: "Within the next five years, how will technology change the practice of management in a way we have not yet witnessed?" As a society, we are becoming increasingly comfortable with the idea that machines can make decisions and take actions on their own.