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 Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

    Tools And Technology: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...

    • Downloads: 1942
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Survey:Latin American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico)

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July and August 2012 of 6,008 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban areas/provinces of Argentina and top urban areas/states of Brazil and Mexico. In...

    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Survey:North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 2), Q3 2012 (US, Canada)

      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...

      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Charts & Figures:Smartphone Users Are More Engaged In mCommerce Activities Than General Phone Users

      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

        Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

        This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...

        • Downloads: 1733
      • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

        Report:Case Study: Managing Virtual Server Capacity

        For one of the travel industry leaders and one of the largest data center operators in Europe, virtualization appeared to be the ideal solution for lowering infrastructure management costs and...

        • Downloads: 184
      • For CIO Professionals

        Report:Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement: An Executive Summary

        This report summarizes the 28-page Forrester report "Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement." By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. However,...

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      • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

        Report:Identify Essential Methods For Your Business Architecture Program

        Processes: The Business Architecture Playbook

        Business architecture (BA) is the practice through which an organization adds analytical rigor to the planning and decision-making surrounding change. Whether changes are driven by competitive...

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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience

        Performance Management: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        This report is an update to "How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience Across The Enterprise" originally published on January 22, 2010. Chief customer experience officers (CC/EOs) need a set of...

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      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Compare Your Campaigns To 70 Others

        Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook

        This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

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      • For CIO Professionals

        Report:Your Company Needs A Mobile Organization

        Organization: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

        Mobile touches every part of your business. Customers crave apps to access your core services. Employees keep work moving forward from any location — meeting room, kitchen table, or soccer...

        • Downloads: 290
        • Comments: 2
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        Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

        Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

        Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

        • Downloads: 549
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      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Report:Forrester Research Mobile Commerce Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7)

        ForecastView Spreadsheet

        Includes mobile commerce buyers and revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, daily deals, and gaming app downloads. Country level detail for France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,...

        • Downloads: 7
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012

        Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Years of...

        • Downloads: 2235
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      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:Examining The Member Interactions Of Five Major Loyalty Programs

        Programs Fall Short Across All Evaluation Criteria

        Forrester applied its new Customer Loyalty Program Review methodology to five popular loyalty programs from the retail, travel, and financial services industries. The results of the evaluation...

        • Downloads: 585
      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Tool:Forrester's Website Functionality Benchmark Criteria: Online Travel Agencies

      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:How Does Social Media Contribute To Customer Experience? Let Us Count The Ways

        It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience

        Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...

        • Downloads: 1848
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

        Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

        Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

        How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

        • Downloads: 1311
        • Comments: 7
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      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

        Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

        Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

        • Downloads: 1118
      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Survey:North American Technographics® Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 (US, Canada)

        Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded from April to June 2012 of 12,181 US and Canadian households and individuals ages 18 and older. For results based on randomly chosen samples of these sizes...

        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:Great Mobile Experiences Are Built On Systems Of Engagement

          Vision: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

          By 2014, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers, including your employees and partners and customers. However, mobile is not simply another device for IT...

          • Downloads: 599
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        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Report:Forrester Research Online Travel Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7)

          ForecastView Spreadsheet

          Total and online travel spending for unmanaged business and leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, rail, hotel, and car hire. Includes regional and individual country data for...

          • Downloads: 2
        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Survey:Asia Pacific Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea)

          Forrester Research conducted an online survey in May 2012 of 7,047 consumers ages 18 and older in South Korea, Australia, Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou,...

          • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

            Report:Forrester Research Mobile Commerce Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

            ForecastView Spreadsheet

            Includes mobile buyers as well as revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, and daily deals, with average spend per mobile buyer. Includes data from 2010 plus a five-year forecast.

            • Downloads: 15
          • 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: 458
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