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Vikram leads the forecast team, which is responsible for producing all forecasts within M&S research. He is focused on the consumer commerce areas including retail, travel, and financial services. He is keenly involved in understanding the evolution of consumers' online behavior and technology adoption.
Vikram came to Forrester Research through its acquisition of Jupiter Research, where he started in July 2000. Prior to Jupiter, Vikram worked at IRI, a leading market research company, where he worked closely with some of the leading CPG companies.
Vikram often appears on TV, radio, and comments in the press on the US online retail and travel industry. He has been quoted in The L.A. Times, Business Week, The New York Times, CNN Money, and American Banker. He has also appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Radio, NPR, Fox Business News, and ABC.
Vikram earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech and a B.Com from N.M College in Mumbai, India.
An Empowered Report
Just a few years ago, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) were a dime a dozen. Big companies like Disney and ESPN tried — yet failed — to create a mobile experience differentiated...

Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, February 2012
Pleasing consumers is becoming increasingly difficult, and the experiences encountered while buying a product can make or break a brand’s reputation with its consumers. One bad experience can...
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...
The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...
Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs need to keep their eyes on emerging technologies that have the potential to improve customer engagement. Some of the most promising tools are not yet receiving a lot...
The Decision About Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) Is An Immediate Priority
Most companies have been looking at the upcoming availability of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as a brand and trademark protection issue rather than as a significant new business opportunity....
The Quest For Market Share And Mindshare In An Age Of Higher Standards
Like the ruins of Rome, the traditional pillars of brand equity are cracking under the weight of the higher standards of the 21st century consumer. Marketers are disoriented in this world where they...

Although social media gives interactive marketers the opportunity to gather more data than ever about customers, few marketers use this data to improve the performance of their email marketing...
How Interactive Marketers Should Tap Twitter For Real Business Results
With Twitter's usage numbers ballooning and its recent announcement of brand pages, interactive marketers are paying attention. Recognizing its potential across the marketing mix, many have already...

How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative
As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...

An Introduction For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals
Are you interested in implementing social co-creation engagements that move beyond Facebook, Twitter, and the occasional outreach to consumers via the corporate blog? If the answer is yes, a...
An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track
Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...
Processes: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report highlights the key principles of mobile experience that interactive marketers must weave into the process of crafting mobile marketing strategies. More people own smartphones than ever...

Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations
The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...
Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...
Brands Need To Prepare Now For The Next Digital Decade
2011 promises to be a year of uncertainty for chief marketing officers (CMOs) and marketing leaders, as consumer confidence remains uncertain and media consumption continues to splinter. But that...