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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.
Forrester Evaluates Mobile Banking At The Four Largest UK Banks
With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they must keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail the...
Strategic Plan: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Today's multichannel company faces enormous pressure to adapt to changing customer expectations and emerging competitive threats. Legacy channel-centric approaches and siloed organizations can no...
eCommerce continues to grow at a rapid pace; on average, the retailers surveyed for Forrester and Shop.org's annual The State of Retailing Online study experienced 28% growth in sales in 2012 over...

Responsive Web Design And Agile Development Prove A Winning Formula
With mobile and tablet usage now mainstream, Forrester believes that eBusiness teams must find time-to-market and cost efficiencies in their digital development processes. In previous research we...
Strategic Plan: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
One of the questions that organizations launching an eCommerce operation commonly ask is, "Are there common elements behind success?" With a decade of retail eCommerce behind us, we can see that...

Mobile will fundamentally change consumer behavior in local establishments in the decades to come. It already generates substantial web traffic for consumer-facing companies and is increasingly...
Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

Road Map: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Developing a vision and building a strategic plan are vital first steps on the road to agile commerce. But once your CEO says "yes," what next? Getting ready for action and taking the first concrete...
Few industries are immune from the digitization of experiences, content, services, and products. In this era of cloud computing and consumer mobile devices, today's digital products have evolved from...

As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

Assessment: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail companies evaluate their eCommerce opportunities, establishing a level set of their current strengths and weaknesses is essential. In 2008, Forrester introduced its proprietary eBusiness...
Business Case: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Business-to-business (B2B) companies know they can generate revenue and save money by migrating their offline customers online. The question is, how much and under what circumstances? Forrester...

Remote Deposit Capture Sharply Cuts The Cost Of Deposit Taking
Financial institutions continue to face challenges on generating revenue. Recent US regulations have greatly reduced overdraft fees and debit card interchange income. With no clear sources of...
In this report we explore five trends that will affect the next generation of digital banking. Rising digital customer expectations, advances in technology, and continued digital disruption threats...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Report
Discovery is the first phase of the customer life cycle — it's the crucial time when consumers first find out about new brands, products, and services. If the "Discover" phase is successful,...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total retail sales. Also includes online buyers, online...
Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

The rapid growth and ubiquity of smartphones naturally means that a significant portion of Internet activity, including shopping, will migrate to this mobile device. While mobile browsing on retail...

US Mobile Payments Will Reach $90B By 2017
Innovation and competitive disruption in mobile payments continued at an accelerated pace throughout 2012, but consumer adoption lagged behind the industry hype. Over the next five years, US...
Processes: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
As B2B organizations embark on an eCommerce path, there are many features, functions, and interfaces from which to choose to maximize their business opportunity. Separating the wheat from the chaff...

Organization: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile strategy has evolved since 2010. Then, a mobile strategy equated to a mobile services road map and technology platform choices. An individual or small team could both create a strategy and...
Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas
There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...
Benchmarks: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
This is the second of two reports that detail the findings from "The State Of Retailing Online, 2011," a Shop.org research survey conducted by Forrester Research. Specific topics covered in this...

China is set to be the world's largest eCommerce market by 2015. Growth in this market shows no signs of slowing down, but many of the forces driving sales differ from other eCommerce markets. This...
Multichannel Strategy Is More Of A Pipe Dream Than Reality
The rapid development of customer touchpoints and rising customer expectations turn up the pressure on eBusiness professionals at retail banks to continue investing in digital channels. Yet few...
