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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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Benchmark Your Interactive Marketing Maturity

    Five Key Metrics For Tracking Progress

    Are your interactive marketing efforts keeping pace with the marketplace? In this report for interactive marketers, Forrester identifies the five key benchmarks that help you gauge how well you are...

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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Benchmarking Mobile Engagement: Consumers And Employees Outpace CIOs' Readiness

    Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

    Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

    • Downloads: 133
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    Report:Case Study: BAE Systems Uses Customer Satisfaction Metrics To Focus On Business Value

    Charles Newhouse, head of strategy and design in the enterprise IT services group at BAE Systems in the UK, felt that IT's traditional quarterly operational reports were not serving IT or the...

    • Downloads: 361
  • For CIO Professionals

    Charts & Figures:An Example Of A Mobile Engagement Dashboard

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Justify Agile With Shorter, Faster Development

    Business Impact: The Agile And Lean Playbook

    This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs...

    • Downloads: 1070
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    Report:Develop Your Business Technology Resiliency Balanced Scorecard

    Performance Management: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

    This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics for business technology resiliency (BTR) programs. The current state of BTR metrics is unsatisfactory —...

    • Downloads: 423
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Online Video Best Practice

    Benchmarking Web Sites Using Forrester's Online Video Product Scorecard

    Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for adding video to your Web site. In this report, we demonstrate how our online video product...

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    Report:Measure BT Strategic Planning Outcomes

    Benchmarks: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

    This report is designed to help CIOs measure and report on the outcomes realized through the BT strategic plan. Specifically, it demonstrates how to link IT initiatives from the strategic plan to the...

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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Avoid Tactical, Narrow Service Management And Automation Strategies

    Strategic Plan: The Service Management And Automation Playbook

    This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their service management and automation (SMA) strategic plan. This is important as the...

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    Report:Strategic Benchmarks 2013: IT Infrastructure

    Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

    This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...

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      Report:Measure EA's Business Goals, Engagement, And Influence

      Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook

      This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

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    • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

      Report:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

      Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

      A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

      • Downloads: 480
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    • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

      Tool:Two Future Cloud-Based Alternative Models For I&O

    • For Security & Risk Professionals

      Report:Develop Mobile Operations And Security Balanced Scorecards

      Performance Management: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

      This report outlines the performance management of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on mobile security and operations. This report is designed to help...

      • Downloads: 433
    • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

      Tool:A Gateway Can Make Cloud Storage More Viable, But Also More Expensive

    • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

      Report:Fast-Tracking EA Renewal

      Building An EA Program For "Dummies"

      As businesses begin to look past the economic downturn, they are executing strategies that require a changed IT mission and plan. This in turn is changing the needs and expectations the EA function...

      • Downloads: 500
    • For Security & Risk Professionals

      Report:Benchmarking Your Enterprise Mobile Device Operations Initiatives And Plans

      This report provides insight into corporate mobility adoption trends based on results from Forrester's Forrsights surveys of IT mobility decision-makers and end user workers in North American and...

      • Downloads: 453
    • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

      Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Some IT Service Desk Metrics?

      We are looking for some metrics for IT service desk (ITSD) support. Can you please provide some numbers around first-contact resolution, number of incidents, abandonment rate, average incident...

      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Report:Online Customer Service Functionality Benchmark: US Airlines

        The Best And Worst Of Online Customer Service Among The Top Four US Airlines

        Forrester evaluated the online customer service offerings of the four largest US airlines: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and American Airlines. Our analysis uncovered a few...

        • Downloads: 457
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      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Report:Website Functionality Benchmark: European Consumer Electronics Retailers

        Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Specialist European Consumer Electronics Retailers

        Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to four European consumer electronics retailers: Best Buy UK, Currys, Darty, and Redcoon. These specialist retailers...

        • Downloads: 309
      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Report:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

        Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

        Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

        • Downloads: 257
      • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

        Report:IT Infrastructure And Operations: The Next Five Years

        The Cloud On IT's Horizon

        Interest in cloud technology and cloud economics abounds. While the technology delivers immediate reductions in capital costs, Forrester believes that cloud computing's greatest benefits will come...

        • Downloads: 3241
      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Report:How To Get Ready For Change

        Put "People Change" Front And Center

        Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...

        • Downloads: 311
      • For CIO Professionals

        Tool:Baseline Cloud Computing Costs For 100 VM Workloads

      • For CIO Professionals

        Report:Measure The Effectiveness Of The Strategic Planning Process

        Performance Management: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

        The ultimate judges of any strategic planning process are the business technology (BT) users who need to produce business benefits with the technology. The goals, desires, and needs of this group are...

        • Downloads: 564
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      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Report:The Six Most Meaningful Metrics To Prove And Improve App Dev's Business Value

        Speak Your Business Partners' Language To Show And Grow Your Worth

        The business/IT divide still exists in many organizations, and bridging that gap is difficult if you can't demonstrate the business value your teams deliver. It's past time to transition from...

        • Downloads: 1743
       
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