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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.
Multiyear Strategies And Larger Investments Define This Year
With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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...
Vision: The Mobile App Development Playbook
With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server...

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...
Assessment: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
eBusiness professionals began in earnest to develop mobile services with the launch of the Apple App Store in 2008. They now have four-plus years of experience under their belts. Initially they...

Mobile Services And Technology Development Approaches Must Consider Future Needs
Press and vendors hype the Web, evolving technologies such as HTML5, middleware platforms, and tactics like responsive design as the answer to mobile fragmentation and the associated costs of...

A Benchmarking Guide For eBusiness Professionals
Mobile technology for both hardware and software is experiencing a frenetic pace of change. What table stakes or "being in the game" means is constantly moving. eBusiness professionals have procured...

eBusiness Professionals Must Prepare For New Messaging Paradigms
Mobile messaging is somewhat dull today, but it is on the verge of becoming more interesting as it transitions from a nuts-and-bolts telecom model to an Internet model with rich feature sets....

Tools And Technology: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
New phone features and capabilities are cropping up seemingly by the day. At the same time, this fast-paced change is dramatically affecting how eBusiness professionals interact with their teams and...

Making Smart Decisions To Support Your Business Needs
This report is a mobile messaging vendor overview designed to provide a framework for narrowing the list of potential vendors that are well suited to meet the needs of your business. Rather than an...
