Julie A. Ask

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy PROFESSIONALS

Julie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Julie's 25 years of work experience is balanced between the engineering and management consulting work she did in the first half of her career and her work as an analyst for the past 12 years. The combination of technical and business expertise positions prepared her well to work with business leaders to identify new opportunities offered by mobile technology and to develop strategies to engage with consumers on mobile devices. She has worked with hundreds of clients across retail, travel, banking, insurance, CPG, healthcare, retail, and more to advise and guide the development of their mobile strategies.

Julie's research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, RCR Wireless, and The Onion and on CBS, NBC, and PBS.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.


Education

Julie holds a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Julie A. Ask's Research

  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: The State Of Mobile Technology Adoption: 2013

    Mobile technology for both hardware and software is experiencing a frenetic pace of change. The definition of table stakes or "being in the game" is constantly moving. eBusiness professionals ha...

    • Downloads: 52
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: Getting Mobile Right With Mobility POST

    Back in 2009, Forrester created the first version of mobile POST — a methodology to help our clients create mobile strategies that align well with the mobile sophistication of their custom...

    • Downloads: 227
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: 2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

    With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates n...

    • Downloads: 718
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: 2013 Mobile Trends For Marketers

    With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates n...

    • Downloads: 1123
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: Building A Pervasive Corporate Mobile Competency

    Mobile strategy has evolved since 2010. Then, a mobile strategy equated to a mobile services road map and technology platform choices. An individual or small team could both create a strategy an...

    • Downloads: 295
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report: 2011 Mobile Trends

    For consumer product strategy professionals who want to engage with their customers in the mobile environment, navigating the complex mobile ecosystem with its many different devices, platforms,...

    • Downloads: 5991
    • Comments: 2
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: Mobile Technographics

    Consumer adoption and usage of mobile communication and multimedia services has reached critical mass. Any brand that interacts regularly with consumers — from retailers to banks to media ...

    • Downloads: 3778
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: A Systematic Approach To Mobile Strategy

    Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do somethi...

    • Downloads: 4226
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: 2012 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

    Talk of "the year of mobile" is not only passé but also irrelevant. The disruptive forces of mobile arrived more than two years ago and will fundamentally change businesses in the decades t...

    • Downloads: 2560
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: The ROI Of Mobile

    "How do I justify the cost of building out our mobile services?" This is a question that Forrester is fielding with increasing frequency. With offline and online revenues dwarfing the revenues d...

    • Downloads: 2606
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Julie A. Ask's Planned Reports

Jun 2013

Report: Big Data Builds Mobile Competitive Advantage

Details to follow.

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