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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.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.
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.
Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

At smaller sites outside North America, is it a best practice to use one, a few, or several WAN service providers?

Skills And Staffing: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Executive Overview: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Over the next decade, telecommunications and mobility (T&M) technologies will play a critical role in the success of geographically distributed companies. Business professionals need their IT...
What are the trends in adoption and use of Ethernet WAN services by very large global organizations?
Business Value: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Forrester enterprise clients with distributed organizations are always interested in simplifying their increasingly complex communications environment. One aspect of this we often hear about is a...
Mobility And Video Are Now Embedded, Social To Follow
Three major trends are changing the focus of telecom and mobility sourcing: 1) mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies; 2) video collaboration; and 3) the rise of social business. Although 2013...

This tool can be used as guidance for establishing a baseline set of standard contract terms and conditions for telecom services to be used by IT and general procurement SVM professionals.
Customers Have A Range Of Strong Options In This Mature Service Category
In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of facilities-based managed global MPLS service providers, we identified and qualified 11 global network operators that offer networking services to...
Processes: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
This report is an update to "Emphasize Flexibility In Communications Service Contract Negotiations To Reduce Risk," originally published on October 9, 2012. This updated report outlines Forrester's...
This tool is meant to serve as an inventorying checklist to be used by the IT sourcing and vendor management (SVM) organization during your audit of your company's current communications...
How are retailers and other companies getting their telecom service provider to help prevent telephone cramming?
Multinational Clients Cite Diminishing Returns From Trying To Single-Source
Forrester regularly receives requests from IT clients about the preferred sourcing approaches of large multinational corporations (MNCs) for outsourced or managed network and telecom services. IT...
Forrester enterprise clients with distributed organizations want to simplify management of an increasingly complex communications environment. This includes defining and then periodically reviewing...
What are the typical rates for IT and business change consultancy services currently negotiated with key partners (consultancy firms)?
Global Firms Will Want Multiple Service Models For Unified Communications
If you haven't done so yet, defining a global strategy for sourcing unified communications (UC) services should top your H1 2012 to-do list. UC will hit mainstream adoption by large multinational...
Assessment: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
A potentially challenging but important first step in establishing a best-practice sourcing strategy for telecommunications and mobility services involves identifying the current state of your...
How much of the total outbound long-distance traffic within an enterprise is between enterprise direct inbound dialing (DIDs)/extensions across multiple enterprise locations?
Outreach: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Large multinational corporations (MNCs) recognize the need to define a global communications technology vision for the next three to five years to ensure competitiveness and sustainable business...
Tools And Technology: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Telecom and mobility services contracting challenges proliferate as distributed user firms implement advanced communications technologies like unified communications (UC) and telepresence that are...
Strategic Plan: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Up until five to seven years ago, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals responsible for telecommunications and mobility services provisioning focused mainly on delivering value by...
What should we be avoiding during mobile contracting?