Vikram Sehgal

VP, Research Director - Data serving Customer Insights PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

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.


Education

Vikram earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech and a B.Com from N.M College in Mumbai, India.

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  • Marketing Automation
  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:The State Of Lead-To-Revenue Management

    Landscape: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

    In order to establish the current state of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) practices among tech marketers, we recently analyzed 80 client inquiries on the topic that tech marketing professionals...

    • Downloads: 550
    • Comments: 2
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:CI Professionals: Plan For The Future Of Cross-Channel Marketing

    The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

    • Downloads: 869
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Tackle Behavioral Targeting To Modernize Customer Interactions

    Benchmarks: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the...

    • Downloads: 636
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Most Organizations Still Measure Digital Channels In Swim Lanes

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Digital Media Buying Maturity Framework

    Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

    • Downloads: 281
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Enable Customer Obsession With Cross-Channel Campaign Management

    Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    Once relegated to the province of direct mail teams and analysts, customer data and marketing technology are now essential to every marketing function, from strategy to creative development to...

    • Downloads: 330
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Measurement Is A Digital Media Buyer's Best Friend

    Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...

    • Downloads: 296
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Understanding The Anatomy Of A Loyalty Technology Platform

    Technology plays an integral role in managing and executing a loyalty program. But buyers face an array of technology solutions that support their loyalty needs in different ways. This report is...

    • Downloads: 195
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Model The ROI Of Cross-Channel Campaign Management

    Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

    • Downloads: 338
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How To Choose Partners For Social Marketing

    Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook

    This report outlines how interactive marketers can choose the right tools and partners for their social marketing programs. As an interactive marketer, you need to use new social technologies —...

    • Downloads: 913
    • Comments: 3
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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:Automating Your End-To-End Process

    Tools And Technology: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

    The lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) process calibrates marketing and sales activities around a common success factor — revenue. An optimized process yields bigger pipelines, shorter sales...

    • Downloads: 271
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Build An Integrated Messaging Approach

    Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...

    • Downloads: 351
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:2013 B2B CMO Imperatives

    Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing

    Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

    • Downloads: 606
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Building A Better Digital Media Strategy

    Strategic Plan: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Moving to greater digital media buying maturity requires a plan that improves your practice across all four foundational pillars of maturity over the long term: organization, planning and execution,...

    • Downloads: 447
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Assess CRM Capabilities To Pinpoint Opportunities

    Assessment: The CRM Playbook

    This report describes the best practices assessment that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer relationship...

    • Downloads: 2144
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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:The New Physics Of Lead-To-Revenue Management

    Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

    The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

    • Downloads: 185
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Forrester's Fast-Forward CRM Capabilities Best Practices Self-Assessment

    Forrester’s best practices framework for CRM defines the critical capabilities necessary for building high-quality customer relationships. The framework distills findings from our interviews...

    • Downloads: 174
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Emerging Technologies For CMOs To Watch: Q3 2012

    New Technologies Push The Boundaries Of Customer Engagement

    CMOs need to keep an eye on emerging technologies that have the potential to improve customer engagement levels. This third report in our series on emerging technologies explores tools and...

    • Downloads: 740
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Take Forrester's Digital Media Buying Maturity Self-Assessment

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Take Forrester's Digital Media Buying Maturity Self-Assessment

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Boost Marketing Returns With Model-Driven Insights

    Tools And Technology: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix modeling is undergoing a transformation as marketers increasingly demand that vendors provide solutions that can be updated frequently, easily aggregate data streams, provide...

    • Downloads: 284
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Forrester Wave™: SEO Platforms, Q4 '12

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: SEO Platforms, Q4 2012

    Rio SEO Leads, With BrightEdge Following As A Strong Performer

    Forrester's 21-criteria evaluation of SEO platforms evaluates the four largest providers of tools for organic search auditing, ranking support, measurement, and project management: BrightEdge,...

    • Downloads: 371
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Plan Customer-Centric Campaign Management Requirements

    Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...

    • Downloads: 277
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Select Partners Who Support Your Goals

    Tools And Technology: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    The linchpins of every effective media buyer's practice are the partner and vendor relationships that allow the buyer to create truly valuable customer experiences. The technology ecosystem for...

    • Downloads: 198
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The SMART Tech Selection Guide For Community Marketers

    Tools And Technology: The B2B Online Community Playbook

    Many IT managers tell us that marketers seem quick to jump to technology selection without first articulating the business reason for or the organizational impact of those choices. On the other hand,...

    • Downloads: 59
 
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