About Forrester
Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology.

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.
Tailored Experiences Are Critical As Mobile Rewrites Customer Engagement Standards
The drumbeat of mobile is increasingly difficult to ignore as usage and revenue gain momentum and smartphones become tightly woven into multichannel customer experiences. But developing engaging...
An Overview Of The Different Ways You Can Leverage Mobile In Your Research
Mobile phones have the ability to capture rich emotional and behavioral insights and uncover connections that may not surface when one leverages traditional research methodologies. This report...

Customer intelligence is in the throes of significant change brought about by two primary drivers: 1) the disruption caused by the massive shifts in consumer behavior, and 2) organizations' growing...

Mobile Channels Offer Rich Opportunities For Rewards And Engagement
Mobile continues to grow in importance for reaching and engaging empowered consumers and loyalty program members. From a data perspective, it opens up new streams of information that provide better...

Findings From Forrester's Q4 2010 Customer Intelligence Survey
Forrester surveyed 52 European customer intelligence (CI) professionals in Q4 2010 about their technology adoption plans. This report drills into the technology adoption trends of our European...
Seven Best Practices For Successfully Using A Market Research Online Community For Behavioral Tracking
Several market research online community (MROC) providers and client-side researchers are pushing the envelope with their communities and panels, using them as a platform for testing emerging...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in April 2013 of 61,167 US individuals and 5,800 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N =...
Business-to-business (B2B) companies that do not already have a social media strategy or a listening platform are at risk of being left behind. While social media and business-to-consumer (B2C)...

Mobile market research is a growing topic of conversation among market insights professionals. However, one aspect of mobile that is not often discussed but that has significant data implications for...
B2B Firms Leave Marketing Value On The Table
Although both B2B firms and B2C firms leverage Customer Intelligence (CI), they don't capture, manage, analyze, and apply data in the same way. Looking at data from our Q2 2009 Global Customer...

Technographics® UK Mobile Behavioral Tracking Study, Q4 2011
Mobile usage has exploded. To develop effective mobile strategies and succeed in this new customer-obsessed mobile world, companies must understand how consumers are using their mobile phones. While...