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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 Role Of Active Hosts In Briefing Success
Neustar has dramatically increased the level of analyst acceptances of briefing requests, the coverage it gains from those briefings, and the willingness of analysts to offer help in the form of...
Analyst relations (AR) people are weighing the opportunities and threats posed by social media, but many take a backward approach to developing a social AR strategy and begin with technology-driven...

AR managers struggle to build value-driven AR plans, let alone to articulate any resultant business value in crisp statements that convince executives of AR's worth. But the plan and the value...


This self-assessment tool helps you review your current industry analyst relations (AR) program, analyze its weaknesses, and identify what you need to change if your program is to join the best. The...

Communications (comms) AR — characterized by programs of outreach to analysts with no clearer view of value beyond this — is weak. It's bad for your company, and, if you aspire to a top...

Strategic Plan: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers constantly ask us how to prove the value of their AR programs. Worryingly, so do some of their bosses. Unfortunately, many struggle because they didn't build plans to...

Vision: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
What are the attributes of a first-class AR professional running a first-class AR program? In this report, we visualize the peak of your profession by showing how different it is from commonplace AR....

Analyst relations (AR) people are fretting about the opportunities and threats posed by social media, their worries fed by uncertainty about which aspects of social media will be important and how....

Executive Overview: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Industry analyst relations (AR) is a profession. Done well, it delivers high business value through unique resources — industry analysts. But vendors understand its value poorly and resource it...

Supporting Sales Is The Hardest Challenge For AR
A bewildering array of options besets industry analyst relations (AR) as it tries to identify the value it can bring to a high-tech supplier. A recent Forrester survey shows that AR reports fair...
Professional measurement is an integral part of fully professional AR; it is not optional. But AR managers get confused about who the measurements are for, as well as what measurements to take, how...

AR's Measurement And Achievement Of Sales Contribution Is Improving
Myriad options puzzle industry analyst relations (AR) professionals as they try to measure the value they bring to high-tech vendors and to deliver consistently against related targets. A Forrester...
Assessment: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers get very little time to assess their AR programs because they're so busy executing on the next apparent priority. To help, Forrester has distilled AR best practices...
Landscape: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
The industry analyst relations (AR) tradition of supporting marketing and sales all too easily limits AR when the parent vendor faces greater business challenges elsewhere. Furthermore, whether AR is...

Influence: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Most valuable AR programs rely, sometimes exclusively, on analysts enhancing the commercial fortunes of the vendors by influencing marketplace players like buyers, partners, journalists, and...

Analyst relations (AR) professionals are weighing the opportunities and threats posed by social media, but many take a backward approach to developing a social AR strategy. They often begin with...

Business Impact: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
It's understandable that AR newcomers think — or maybe just hope — that there's a one-size-fits-all AR program that they can apply to their companies. After all, they're short on money,...