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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.

The cloud continues to get a lot of attention — and scrutiny — from IT buyers. Most IT buyers have accepted the value of the cloud for process areas such as human capital management and...

Canada Is Like The US In Growth, But Different In Mix Of Purchases
Canada is like the US, only different. This bit of doggerel applies as much to the Canadian information and communications technology (ICT) market as it does to Canada's economy or culture. Because...
What role do you anticipate each of the following having in the healthcare-unbound future: hospitals – could hospitals end up running regional networks where they provide...
Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations
The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...
How Biometrics Enable Smart Computing Solutions
Biometrics is already a growing market today in a variety of applications. Smart Computing will help to fuel biometrics growth as smart applications call for a greater level of security and...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...
Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program
Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...
Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

Health Insurance eBusiness Professionals Must Press On Despite Low Demand
Health insurance eBusiness professionals have entered the mobile fray. Apps and mobile sites span the administrative and the health and wellness spectrum, but US online commercially insured consumers...
Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

How Focusing On Callers And Agents Can Drive Business Results
Today, user-centered design isn't widely used to improve call center interactions. That needs to change. When applied in the call center, the core activities of a user-centered design process —...
Could you direct me to any reports on healthcare institutes of quality/excellence and sites of service for procedures that will allow members to experience a lower cost through steerage to particular...
What (current and potential) features do patients/providers want to have in a patient-provider portal? How are these features ranked? What do patients/providers look for in their...
Product Strategists Must Build Total Product Experiences To Combat Consumers' Declining Brand Loyalty
Brand loyalty has long been a critical pillar of product strategy, but its power is in relative decline. Technology and a recessionary economy have threatened the value of brand loyalty, especially...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2012 of 4,518 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,518), there is 95% confidence that...