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Activate Your Augmented Reality Initiative

A guide to understanding how AR technology will bring value to your organization.

  • Augmented reality is a new technology and use cases are still emerging. Organizations have to work hard to stay ahead of the curve and predict how they will be impacted.
  • There are limited off-the-shelf augmented reality solutions in terms of business applications. IT not only needs to understand the emerging augmented reality hardware, but also the plethora of development platforms.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Augmented reality presents a new avenue to solve problems that cannot be addressed efficiently with existing technology. It is a new tool that will impact the way you work.
  • Beyond addressing existing problems, augmented reality will provide the ability to differently execute business processes. Current processes have been designed with existing systems and capabilities in mind. Augmented reality impacts organizational design processes that are more complex.
  • As a technology with an evolving set of use cases, IT and the business must anticipate some of the challenges that may arise with the use of augmented reality (e.g. health and safety, application development, regulatory).

Impact and Result

  • Our methodology addresses the possible issues by using a case-study approach to demonstrate the “art of the possible” for augmented reality.
  • With an understanding of augmented reality, it is possible to find applicable use cases for this emerging technology and get a leg up on competitors.
  • By utilizing Info-Tech’s Augmented Reality Use Case Picklist and the Augmented Reality Stakeholder Presentation Template, the IT team and their business stakeholders can confidently approach augmented reality adoption.

Activate Your Augmented Reality Initiative Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why your organization should care about augmented reality’s potential to transform the workplace and how Info-Tech will support you as you identify and build your augmented reality use case.

1. Understand augmented reality

Analyze the four key benefits of augmented reality to understand how the technology can resolve industry issues.

2. Finding space for augmented reality

Develop and prioritize use cases for augmented reality using Info-Tech’s AR Initiative Framework.

3. Communicate project decisions to stakeholders

Present the augmented reality initiative to stakeholders and understand the way forward for the AR initiative.

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About Info-Tech

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We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

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Author

Samuel Leese

Contributors

  • Alex Mayhew, Co-Founder, Impossible Things Inc.
  • Geof Wheelwright, Director of Marketing, Ahteer
  • Jennifer Richey, Chief Strategy Officer, Gravity Jack
  • Steven Aukstakalnis, Author, Practical Augmented Reality
  • Steven Shew, Co-Founder, Battleverse
  • Anonymous Contributors
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