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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  • eCommerce
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Best Practices In Mobile Banking

    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...

    • Downloads: 654
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Building Next-Generation Mobile Banking

    Tools And Technologies: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

    Even the best mobile strategy can be a victim of poor execution. Managing technology is hard enough, but as new phone features and capabilities crop up seemingly every day, navigating the ever...

    • Downloads: 814
    • Comments: 1
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:B2B CMOs: Make Marketing Automation A Catalyst For Alignment With Sales

    Use Forrester's Marketing Automation Maturity Model To Map Your Strategy

    Business-to-business (B2B) marketers use technology to aggressively push more leads into the top of the sales funnel. Businesses have changed their buying behavior, and while the capabilities of the...

    • Downloads: 874
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2012: US Online Grocers

    Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores

    Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

    • Downloads: 334
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Case Study: PagesJaunes Embraces The Local Social Web To Drive Mobile Product Innovation

    The French Yellow Pages Firm Is Turning Mobile Market Disruption Into Competitive Advantage

    Local and social trends are converging and are strong mobile catalysts: These factors have accelerated the importance of mobile to PagesJaunes and its customers. The French yellow pages company has...

    • Downloads: 445
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The ROI Of Mobile Investing And Mobile Trading

    Making The Business Case For Mobile Efforts At Wealth Management Firms

    Mobile has become a high priority for eBusiness teams at wealth management and investment firms. In the US, the proportion of online adults who use the mobile channel to manage their investments rose...

    • Downloads: 618
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:2013 Global Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

    Benchmarks: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

    We used our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology to evaluate the retail mobile banking offerings of 15 retail banks in in North America, Western Europe, and Australia across more than...

    • Downloads: 343
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Mobile Technologies That Drive Sales

    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...

    • Downloads: 1347
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Trends 2012: European Insurance eBusiness And Channel Strategy

    Start Working On Your Digital Agenda Now!

    Despite the fact that we are in the midst of a European crisis that could influence the insurance business dramatically, eBusiness and channel strategy executives in this region should be sensitive...

    • Downloads: 724
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Customer Advocacy 2011: How Customers Rate European Banks

    In the midst of the recession and ongoing sovereign debt crisis, only 29% of Europeans believe their bank acts in their best interest. However, some banks rank much higher than others in our customer...

    • Downloads: 269
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

    Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

    As retail eCommerce sales continue to explode, eBusiness executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they are not missing opportunities in this critical channel. This playbook provides...

    • Downloads: 1140
    • Comments: 4
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Optimize Your Mobile Banking Strategy

    Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

    Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

    • Downloads: 664
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The Mobile eBusiness Ecosystem

    Stakeholder Map: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

    This report outlines the stakeholder map of the mobile eBusiness playbook, which is designed to drive value through mobile services. This report should be used by eBusiness professionals to plan and...

    • Downloads: 494
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Making Informed Mobile Payment Investments In China

    The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...

    • Downloads: 80
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:European Social Retail Is A Work In Progress

    Social media is transforming the way European online buyers interact with each other and consume content. Online buyers are using social media to connect with their peers and, to a much lesser...

    • Downloads: 572
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:FaceTime Is The Second Coming Of Video Telephony — Again

    Skype And Others Will Benefit From Apple's New iPhone 4 Hardware

    Creating a successful strategy for consumer video telephony has eluded everyone bar Skype. Even the telecommunications industry itself has failed with this particular communications product:...

    • Downloads: 464
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Market Overview: Chat Solutions For Customer Service

    Twenty Solutions For Delivering Differentiated Experiences

    Customers demand superior service and support as the price for their ongoing loyalty and patronage, and they are increasingly leveraging the chat channel for customer service. The chat vendor...

    • Downloads: 153
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:US Alternative Payments Forecast, 2011 To 2016

    As eCommerce has exploded, eBusiness executives have often looked to various payment forms at checkout as a means of growing their businesses. Alternative payments, or non-card payments, purport to...

    • Downloads: 803
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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:B2B Tech Marketers Are The Key To Competitive Success In Customer-Centric European Markets

    B2B Social Technographics® Data For Q1 2011 Confirms That Social Media Usage In Europe Continues At A High Level

    Forrester has completed its Q1 2011 US And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers, which marks the third year we've conducted this survey As in the US,...

    • Downloads: 284
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Canada Mobile Technographics®: 2010

    An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience

    The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. Mobile Technographics offers consumer product strategists a means of obtaining...

    • Downloads: 738
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Tech Marketers Are Missing The Social Mark For Senior Decision-Makers

    Senior Decision-Makers Are Heavy Users Of Social Media

    B2B marketers like yourself must target their marketing strategies — including their approach to social — to their target audiences. When you target senior decision-makers with titles...

    • Downloads: 270
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016

    Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...

    • Downloads: 1569
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Online Travel Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Total and online travel spending for unmanaged business and leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, rail, hotel, and car hire. Includes regional and individual country data for...

    • Downloads: 3
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Marketing Via Geosocial Apps: Why And How

    Location-Based Social Networking, Though Stagnant Now, Is Poised To Grow

    Geosocial applications — also known as location-based social networks — hold potential for interactive marketers: They can help increase in-store visits, your brand's visibility, and...

    • Downloads: 588
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:How eBusiness Professionals Can Use The Convenience Quotient To Prioritize Mobile Services

    The Convenience Quotient Of Mobile Services: A Facebook Case Study

    Although a majority of consumers still prefer the traditional PC to a mobile phone when performing any task related to eBusiness, our research shows that mobile penetration continues to rise....

    • Downloads: 290
 
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