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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.
Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer
The empowered customer is driving new models of business success that are rapidly redefining the CIO's investment agenda in successful firms — the inauguration of what Forrester calls the age...
Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

Business Leaders Must Lead Big Data Initiatives To Derive Value
As consumers use multiple touchpoints to obtain information, exchange reviews, and purchase products and services, organizations are struggling to better integrate systems and leverage social...


This model allows you to assess your IT/marketing partnership readiness along the three critical dimensions of people, process, and technology. Use this model to identify strengths and weaknesses of...

The CIO's Role In Building A Strategic Partnership With Marketing
In today's fast-paced global economy, examples of how empowered customers and citizens use social technology to influence everything from brands to governments are all around us. The Arab Spring...

Responding To Rising Customer Expectations Requires New Approaches
Organizations are struggling to deal with the increasing need to improve the customer experience. They must not only deliver best-in-class products and services, but also optimize the quality of the...

Assessing Your Marketing-IT Partnership Readiness To Develop A Custom Action Plan
In the future, only companies that understand and anticipate their customers' needs and can consistently deliver unique, tailored customer experiences will be able to attract and retain loyal...

Unique Requirements Drive CRM Investments In Asia
As organizations evolve from transactional customer interaction methods to customer engagement, they struggle to support and enhance the customer experience across rapidly evolving channels like...

Business Vision: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
CIOs and IT strategists participating in strategic planning must bring to the discussion an understanding of emerging business trends. This section of Forrester's BT Strategic Planning playbook...
