Google doesn't rely on any one strategy, but deploys a number of them to create an intricate-but powerful-innovation ecosystem that seems to roll out innovations by the dozens.
What's keeping leaders from adopting machine learning? Well, tools are still evolving, practitioners are scarce, and the technology is a bit inscrutable for comfort. But five vectors of progress are making it easier, faster, and cheaper to deploy machine learning and could bring it into the mainstream.