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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Choosing The Right Media Mix 2010: Europe

    From Creating Awareness To The Act Of Purchase

    Television is still the dominant medium to get messages in front of European consumers, but the Internet is now the primary medium consumers use to research their purchases. Within the digital...

    • Downloads: 654
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Online Video On TV Leads To Cord-Cutting By 2012

    A noteworthy 24.8 million US homes have watched online video on a TV set, most of it put there by Netflix with the help of dozens of different devices. Online video delivered over the top is so...

    • Downloads: 1332
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Consumers Want Online Advertising To Be Relevant, Respectful, And Rewarding

    Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, September 2012

    In the age of the always addressable customer, where hyperconnected consumers are increasingly savvy and demanding of the brands with which they interact, marketers must become more audience-centric...

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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:3D TV Fails To Inspire Consumers In 2010

    Most People Are Happy To Wait To Upgrade To 3D TV

    At the opening of 2010, the world's largest TV manufacturers came to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) full of heady promises about the future of 3D TV. Despite the success of 3D films at the box...

    • Downloads: 502
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Why Marketers Must Integrate TV And Video Strategies

    In addition to the variety of media options that the digital age has brought forth, TV is the next medium to get a digital makeover. New access points to the living-room screen and the invasion of...

    • Downloads: 758
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Products That Lose When Tablets Win

    Cannibalization Will Accelerate With The Next Wave Of Tablet Buyers

    Product strategists regard tablets with an anxious eye, pondering the extent to which tablets will cannibalize products like newspapers, magazines, laptops, netbooks, and TVs. Forrester's data...

    • Downloads: 1254
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Trends 2011: Video Enters Travel eBusiness Prime Time

    Forrester expects that the use of video content on travel websites will emerge as a significant trend in travel eBusiness in 2011. Why? For one thing, more than one in five US online leisure...

    • Downloads: 630
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2011 To 2016

    Spend Will Near $77 Billion As Interactive Gains Legitimacy In The Mix

    By 2016, advertisers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing — as much as they do on television today. Search marketing, display advertising, mobile marketing, email marketing, and...

    • Downloads: 3367
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    Report:Three Ways To Find, Create, And Energize Advocates

    Promote, Find, And Attract The Mass Influencers Who Matter

    Fans and followers are helpful for brands, but the people who bring the greatest value in social media are not just fans but advocates — people who can and will support, engage, and share...

    • Downloads: 1018
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Western European Mobile Games Forecast, 2010 To 2015

    The Lessons To Learn From Gaming, Mobile's Most Advanced Content Market

    The Western European mobile gaming market is set to grow from €764 million at the end of 2010 to €1.46 billion by the end of 2015. Growth will come from a combination of a rise in the...

    • Downloads: 791
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Data Essentials: A Snapshot Of US Online Consumers

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    This Data Essentials document highlights key data points about US online consumers' adoption of the Internet and its various activities. Drawing from data gathered in our annual benchmark survey,...

    • Downloads: 398
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of Online Consumers In Latin America

    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...

    • Downloads: 106
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Why Care About Combination Clickers

    The Most Valuable Searchers Click On Both Paid And Natural Listings

    Search marketers often try to profile consumers who click on paid ads against those who prefer natural search results. But the reality is there is little discernable difference between paid and...

    • Downloads: 289
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Technographics® Survey Highlights: Media Consumption In Asia Pacific

    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.

    • Downloads: 13
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Marketing Leaders' Approach To Content Creation For Brands

    Four Examples Show How To Experiment In Branded Content Development

    Marketers have long relied on advertising and their agencies to help tell the story of their brands. As consumers become immune to traditional advertising and ad clutter and fragmentation limits ad...

    • Downloads: 670
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Portable Media Players Must Evolve With Cloud Or Become Extinct

    Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition

    Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...

    • Downloads: 469
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Which Device Offers The Best Music Experience?

    From set-top boxes to cell phones, device makers are falling over themselves to offer music functionality. Digital music services have also evolved to "anytime, anywhere" access with rich discovery...

    • Downloads: 432
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:2011 Customer Experience Predictions

    What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead

    In 2011, the customer experience ecosystem will expand to include a dizzying array of new devices, touchpoints, and physical interactions. The breadth of this emerging ecosystem and the number of...

    • Downloads: 1832
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:European Email Affinity Declines

    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...

    • Downloads: 147
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Why The EU ePrivacy Law Will Not Kill eCommerce

    Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers

    In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...

    • Downloads: 206
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:A Systematic Approach To Mobile Strategy

    Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

    Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...

    • Downloads: 4179
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Pricing As A Strategic Competency

    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...

    • Downloads: 597
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Game On: Education Product Strategists Embrace Gamification

    Classroom Technology Enables New Product Innovation

    "Gamification" is a hot topic in product strategy, especially in US K-12 education. Product strategists in education are helping their customers achieve teaching and learning goals by developing...

    • Downloads: 539
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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Why Your Call Center Needs User-Centered Design

    How Focusing On Callers And Agents Can Drive Business Results

    Today, user-centered design isn't widely used to improve call center interactions. That needs to change. When applied in the call center, the core activities of a user-centered design process —...

    • Downloads: 763
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2011

    Consumers Rate The Customer Experience Across 153 Large US Brands

    To assess the state of customer experience in 2011, Forrester asked more than 7,700 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies. Based on their responses, we calculated Customer...

    • Downloads: 2601
 
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