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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.
Today, consumers in Europe pay less attention to promotional emails, delete emails without reading them, find emails less relevant, and wonder how marketers got their email data. Smart marketers...
Skype And Others Will Benefit From Apple's New iPhone 4 Hardware
Creating a successful strategy for consumer video telephony has eluded everyone bar Skype. Even the telecommunications industry itself has failed with this particular communications product:...
Making Technographics® Segmentation Work
Consumers today have the choice of purchasing products and services from multiple brands, channels, and retailers. For that reason, understanding the underlying motivations and drivers that influence...


A Technographics® Global Overview Document
Understanding how global consumers access the Internet is a crucial part of understanding how they're engaging with the Internet (and thus how you can engage with them). This Technographics®...
An overview of the types of advertisments that Latin Americans trust and how these differ for Brazilian and Mexican consumers.
North American Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Benchmark Survey, 2010 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers' demographics,...

An Empowered Report: How Online And Mobile Behaviors Are Changing
For the first time ever, the average US online consumer reports spending as much time online as he or she does watching TV offline. Trending data from 2007 shows that while consumers are continuing...

Tablets and TVs are big business: Forrester forecasts that 112.5 million US consumers will own a tablet by 2016, and tablets are disrupting several multibillion-dollar industries related to TV,...

European Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012. It provides an overview of European consumers' Internet and consumer technology behaviors....
The Impact Of Media Fragmentation Patterns On Communication Strategy
Consumers across Europe are embracing new media platforms that change the way they consume content. This year's European Technographics® data shows a continuous growth in the amount of time...
Why Price Needs To Become More Than Just A Number For Product Strategists
Price can no longer be just a number for product strategists. Pricing now needs to become a strategic competency that affects every aspect of product strategy, from the business model to the nature...
Using The Online Video Product Scorecard To Identify Best Practice
Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for building video products and adding video to your Web site. This report demonstrates how...
Latin American Consumer Technographics®
Over the past couple of years, Latin America has risen on many global companies' priority lists of new markets to focus on and understand. Given the meteoric rise of social networks like orkut and...

Asia Pacific Technographics®
For the past seven years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. As in recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online and...
North American Consumer Technographics®
US consumers today are exposed to more kinds of connected devices than ever before. Consumers associate the terms "going online" or "using the Internet" with devices like laptops and desktops. Social...
Asia Pacific Consumer Technographics®
This report provides an overview of metropolitan Chinese online consumers' behaviors and technology attitudes. In general, metropolitan Chinese consumers are enthusiastic mobile owners and social...
Social media is changing the way audiences engage with TV. Led by Generation X and Generation Y, audiences are increasingly multitasking on digital devices while watching TV — and sharing what...
Analyzing Your Customers' Engagement Across Touchpoints
The splinternet — the fragmented world of incompatible web, social, video, and mobile touchpoints — is where your customers live now. They want to reach you in more touchpoints, but you...
An overview of media consumption in Asia Pacific, including the relationship between age and media consumption, as well as trust in ads in traditional versus online media.
An Empowered Report: Content Is A Product, Too
Disruptive consumer behavior is profoundly affecting your ability to engage consumers through traditional media and marketing channels. Empowered product strategists within your organization must be...