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.

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    Report:CMOs Must Connect The Dots Of The Online Brand

    Orchestrate Digital For The Best Brand Experience

    Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels — Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other...

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    Report:Establish New Agency Partnerships

    Tools And Technology: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Building a 21st century brand requires marketers to form new types of partnership with agencies. As with the fast-changing technology landscape, it's up to marketers to stay current with the...

    • Downloads: 307
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    Report:Marketing And IT Must Align For Business Success

    Mastering The Customer Data Flow Requires Marketing And IT To Join Forces

    Today's marketing organization must use technology to deliver compelling brand experiences and drive business growth. Today's IT organizations must tune their efforts to needs of the business. This...

    • Downloads: 516
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    Charts & Figures:Digital As The Campaign Optimizer

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    Report:Manage The Digitization Of Agency Services

    Performance Management: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    To effectively manage agency partners, marketers must reorient themselves to the shifting terrain of the agency landscape. All agencies are digitizing their core capabilities to help clients engage...

    • Downloads: 291
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    Report:CMO Mandate: Adapt Or Perish

    The Five Habits Of Highly Adaptive Marketers

    Three out of four CMOs plan to revamp their organizations for the digital age by the end of 2011. The reason? Their initial efforts to create digital departments and outsource digital capabilities...

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    Report:Become Scientific About Marketing Investments And Outcomes

    Road Map: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix optimization (MMO) has become an indispensable discipline for marketing leaders because it helps in effectively allocating marketing budgets across an increasingly fragmented media and...

    • Downloads: 276
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    Report:Breaking Down The Financial Barriers To Marketing Innovation

    CMOs continue to fall short in marketing innovation. Most marketers experiment instead, putting the lion's share of their investment into testing one P of the marketing mix: promotion. While new...

    • Downloads: 317
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    Tool:Most Marketers Invest Conservatively In Experimentation And Testing

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    Report:How To Define The Role Of Digital In Integrated Campaigns: Evaluation Criteria For Mapping Digital Strategies To Campaigns

    In the report, "How To Define The Role Of Digital In Integrated Campaigns," Forrester identified four ways for marketers to use digital assets more strategically in their integrated marketing...

    • Downloads: 47
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    Report:Marketing Leaders' Approach To Content Creation For Brands

    Four Examples Show How To Experiment In Branded Content Development

    Marketers have long relied on advertising and their agencies to help tell the story of their brands. As consumers become immune to traditional advertising and ad clutter and fragmentation limits ad...

    • Downloads: 670
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    Report:The Evolved CMO In 2012

    CMOs Must Take A More Active Role In Business And Technology Strategy

    Forrester Research and Heidrick & Struggles recently conducted a global survey of nearly 200 chief marketing officers (CMOs). In this report, you will find out how these CMOs view their relationship...

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    Tool:The Mobile Velocity Scorecard

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    Report:Embed The Customer Life Cycle Across Marketing

    Vision: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

    Today's empowered customer has the world at her fingertips — literally — through the multiple keyboards and connections to opinions all throughout her day. The challenge for today's...

    • Downloads: 447
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    Tool:Test Your Orchestration Maturity

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    Tool:The ADAPT Self-Diagnostic

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    Report:CMOs Must Lead The Customer-Obsessed Revolution

    Guiding The Journey To Competitive Advantage In The Age Of The Customer

    Companies are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world where empowered consumers, commoditized products, and intense...

    • Downloads: 526
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    Report:TV's Currency Conversion

    Marketers Need To Prepare For More Complex TV Buying In The US

    Since the birth of TiVo in 1997, set-top-box data has been discussed as a more accurate alternative to Nielsen data for buying commercial slots in linear TV. But advertisers remain comfortable with...

    • Downloads: 501
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    Report:How To Define The Role Of Digital In Integrated Campaigns

    Four Ways To Strategically Add Value To Multichannel Marketing

    Marketers continue to treat digital channels as an afterthought of their integrated campaigns, instead of as strategic assets. But it's time for marketers to rethink their approach to multichannel...

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    Report:Orchestrating The Brand Experience: A Maturity Model

    A CMO's Road Map For Connecting The Dots

    Forrester has called for the CMO to be a chef d'orchestre, who assertively leads the definition of the brand and shepherds the brand experience across the marketing mix and around the company. But...

    • Downloads: 601
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    Report:TV And Video Advertising Is On The Upswing In 2012

    Forrester partnered with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to better understand marketers' current attitudes toward TV and digital video advertising. Marketers have regained their...

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    Report:TV's New Advertising Frontier

    New TV Advertising Options Point Marketers Toward The Future

    After 50 years of the 30-second spot, "innovations" like infomercials, and product placements, the world of TV advertising is about to go through a massive change. The promise of interactive TV is...

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    Tool:Compare Results With Other Marketing Leaders' Current Innovation Priorities

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    Report:The New Layers Of TV Audience Insight

    Audiences are fundamentally changing the way they watch TV. Viewers are now active on a second screen — a tablet, PC, or mobile device — at the same time that the big screen is turned on....

    • Downloads: 476
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    Report:Case Study: IBM Makes Social Media The Responsibility Of Every Employee

    An Empowered Report: Spread Social Media Responsibilities Across The Organization To Empower Employees And Strengthen The Brand

    As a global technology leader focused on delivering forward-looking technology and solutions, IBM is no stranger to taking a unique approach in order to generate a stronger end result. To encourage...

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    Report:Shopper Marketing Breaks Out Of The Store

    Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions

    Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...

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