What Finance Leaders Need to Know About Machine Learning
March 12, 2019
For any executive who pursued a traditional path into the finance organization—business school, perhaps an accounting degree or an MBA in finance—the incessant media chatter about machine learning and other artificial intelligence tools, and how they will transform business, must be a little disconcerting. For most finance executives, these are topics for which neither school nor work experience has offered any preparation.
Although many have an idea of what machine learning is, few have a concrete understanding of how or where it might be implemented in service of their employers. The way forward for finance leaders involves a working understanding of machine learning.