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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.
Effective content marketing is now critical to B2B marketers' success because useful content accelerates potential buyers along their journey. That usefulness is predicated on the content being...
Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers
Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...
E-Trade And Fidelity Lead The Pack
With investor expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital wealth management teams know they need to improve their portfolios of mobile sites and apps. Forrester evaluated the...
The rapid consumer adoption of mobile devices, new interfaces, and the changing behaviors they encourage have fundamentally changed how customers engage with companies. Gone are the days when...

Vision: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Even companies that make customer experience a strategic priority struggle to implement major long-lasting improvements. That's because they fail to connect behind-the-scenes activities to customer...
Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...
How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending
Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...
A Global Consumer Technographics® Report
By far the largest and most populated country in South America, Brazil has a presence on the world stage that continues to win global attention and inspire awe with as much flair as Adriana Lima...
Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating the...
Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

Processes: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Organizations still struggle to get the right content to the right consumers at the right time. Outdated technologies, policies, and procedures mean that IT can't keep pace with the business' demands...
Landscape: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook
Insurance companies are rolling out a widening range of mobile insurance functionality for both consumers and agents. While there's substantial consumer interest in mobile insurance, actual use is...

Shopper Marketing Needs Close Ties To Brand Marketing To Attract Empowered Consumers
CMOs have given renewed attention to shopper marketing efforts lately, as these marketers sit closest to the consumer while she is in buying mode. However, shopper marketing teams are more typically...
Delivering Experience Excellence Across A Fractured Network Of Digital Touchpoints
Today's digital landscape is distributed across an array of touchpoints and devices. With customers able to interact through multiple channels at any given moment, firms need to ensure that they...

Assessment: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Customer interactions are shaped by a complex set of interdependencies that Forrester calls the customer experience ecosystem. In order to make significant and long-lasting customer experience...
After evaluating two categories of enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors in Q3 2011, Forrester will no longer cover the vendor market landscape in the same way. This report explains why the...
Performance Management: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
To get the best returns from the adoption of a customer-centric approach to marketing, Forrester believes that marketers must make the shift from the traditional marketing funnel to the customer life...

A Benchmarking Guide For eBusiness Professionals
Mobile technology for both hardware and software is experiencing a frenetic pace of change. The definition of table stakes or "being in the game" is constantly moving. eBusiness professionals have...
Voice of the customer (VoC) programs require structure and follow-through to be effective at driving customer experience (CX) improvements. CX pros need to know how good their programs are, how they...

Processes: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
To make meaningful customer experience improvements, organizations need to align their customer experience ecosystems. That requires understanding customers' deep needs, viewing interactions from the...

Explosive 3G adoption in China over the past 24 months has made mobile Internet a much more competitive landscape, with new and unconventional market players entering the fray. Most of the activity...

Assessment: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
This report describes the best practices assessment framework that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service...

Landscape: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
AD&D pros have had an uphill journey to support digitally enabled customer experiences as they navigate the coordination of existing investments and management of a complicated technology ecosystem....
In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...
Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations
Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...
