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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    Report:The Personal Cloud: Transforming Personal Computing, Mobile, And Web Markets

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    Report:What You Need To Know About Third-Party Recommendation Engines

    eBusiness executives continue to look for new ways to increase their conversion rates and customer retention. In recent years, third-party recommendation engines, which have earned a reputation for...

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    Vision: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

    As organizations strive to succeed in the age of the customer, business and IT professionals responsible for customer service struggle to understand changing customer behavior, re-engineer end-to-end...

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    Report:Postmortem: US Online Holiday Season, 2009

    The 2009 holiday season arrived during the great recession. In spite of the economic slowdown, nearly three-quarters of online holiday buyers maintained or increased spend in the online channel...

    • Downloads: 256
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:How Financial Services Firms Win Loyal Customers

    Customer Advocacy 2011: How Customers Rate US Banks, Investment Firms, And Insurers

    Marketing leaders at top-ranked financial services firms have found the secret to loyal customers. Forrester calls it customer advocacy: customers' perception that a firm does what's best for them,...

    • Downloads: 716
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    Report:Customer Advocacy 2011: How Customers Rate US Banks, Investment Firms, And Insurers

    Two years after a near collapse of the financial system, consumer trust in many US financial institutions has returned. But some firms rank much higher than others in our customer advocacy ratings....

    • Downloads: 816
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    Report:Windows: The Next Five Years

    As Mobile Device Sales Surpass PCs, CIOs Will Need To Corral A Troika Of OS Leaders

    The launch of Windows 8 is a major pivot point for Microsoft — and for IT leaders and the individuals they support. The new Windows 8 user experience (UX) and programming model will transform...

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    Report:Selling To US Online Affluent Travelers Poses A First-Class Challenge To Travel eBusiness

    Value Is Important To Online Sales Success In The Post-Recession Environment

    There are nearly 6 million US online leisure travelers with a net worth of $1 million or more. For a group of millionaires, this audience is not necessarily as fancy as you might imagine it to be....

    • Downloads: 472
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    Report:Benchmarking Mobile Engagement: Consumers And Employees Outpace CIOs' Readiness

    Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

    Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

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    Report:Leveraging Millennials To Drive Enterprise Social Initiatives

    Investments in enterprise social technology continue to rise. At the same time, the bet on enterprise social initiatives becomes increasingly strategic. The stakes are high, the risk of failure looms...

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