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 Methods
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    Report:2011 US Mobile Marketing Predictions

    After a record year for mobile marketing spend and success, mobile has finally arrived as a legitimate marketing medium. In 2011, Forrester predicts that marketers will take the training wheels off...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Survey:North American Technographics® Consumer Deep Dive: Investigating The Customer Life Cycle (Engage Phase) Survey, Q2 2012 (US)

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in June 2012 of 4,506 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,506), there is 95% confidence that...

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      Tool:Communities Dominate Marketers' Emerging Media Plans

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      Charts & Figures:Demographics And Attitudes

      A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

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      Report:2D Bar Codes: Emerging Role In Sales

      An Empowered Report: 2D Bar Codes: Learn Why There's No Urgency

      2D bar codes have captured the attention of eBusiness professionals in many industries who are looking to bridge the gap between online and offline media. The stakes are high. Those who execute well...

      • Downloads: 232
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      Tool:Percent Of Revenue From Mobile By Type Of Retailer

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Forrester Research Mobile Advertising Display And Search Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (US)

      ForecastView Spreadsheet

      Spending by companies on mobile marketing segmented by mobile advertising and search. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size.

      • Downloads: 10
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      Report:The New Blogging Strategy For Consumer Brands

      Using Blogs To Empower Consumers And Gain Back Trust For Your Brand

      Blogging is an often misused social marketing platform. Marketers often recycle generic content, follow quarterly content schedules, and plan more for search optimization than engagement. Old school...

      • Downloads: 779
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Enable Loyalty Program Success With Sound Processes

      Processes: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

      Loyalty programs promise to increase retention and satisfaction, but they often fall short of delivering results because they lack an innovative strategy to set them apart from the competition. This...

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      Report:US Marketers: Stay Ahead Of 2D Bar Code Adoption

      Start Piloting Now To Be Prepared To Benefit From Growing Consumer Use

      The 2D bar code is a promising mobile marketing tactic: It provides marketers a quick way to bridge the offline-online gap and enhance consumer engagement with their target audience anytime, anywhere...

      • Downloads: 341
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Online Retailing In Australia 2011: Marketing, Merchandising, And Customer Service

      Despite the momentum in Australian online retail, the sector is still quite focused on the basics of customer engagement. When it comes to marketing, this means online retailers don't just prioritize...

      • Downloads: 260
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Case Study: SCENE Uses Customer Insights To Deliver Value To Loyalty Customers

      This report provides a case study supporting Forrester's best practices for customer intelligence professionals working to drive customer loyalty. Forrester identifies four crucial best practices for...

      • Downloads: 168
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Mobile Apps For Marketing

      When And How Interactive Marketers Should Build Apps For Marketing Purposes

      Mobile apps hold exciting potential for interactive marketers to reach their audiences through mobile devices in ways the mobile Web can't. But today, mobile apps receive a mixed response from...

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      Report:Moving Traveler Loyalty From "Utility" To "Good"

      Using Ancient Greek Philosophy As A Framework For 21st Century Travel Loyalty

      The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that there were three levels of friendships: utility, pleasure, and good. The lowest, utility, describes the current state of travel loyalty programs —...

      • Downloads: 500
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:The Mobile Velocity Scorecard

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      Tool:PC And Mobile Internet Usage Growth

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

      Tools And Technology: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

      Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...

      • Downloads: 1942
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      Report:Testing Emerging Media: A B2B Framework

      B2B marketers are beginning to introduce new digital tools like social media, mobile, and online video into their marketing mix. Nonetheless, many B2Bs lack a clear process for prioritizing and...

      • Downloads: 711
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:CI Professionals: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

      Customer Intelligence Professionals Need Mobile Analytic Tactics

      Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...

      • Downloads: 675
    • For CMO Professionals

      Report:Shopper Marketing Breaks Out Of The Store

      Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions

      Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...

      • Downloads: 907
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      Report:Investing In Tech Marketing, 2011

      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,...

      • Downloads: 852
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

      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...

      • Downloads: 663
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      Report:Under The Hood Of Mobile Marketing: Location-Based Marketing

      Making Marketing Content Relevant To Where People Are

      As marketers step up their mobile marketing efforts, Forrester clients are asking more and more questions about it, and one of the most important facets of the opportunity is location-based...

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      Report:The Time Is Right To Start Experimenting With Mobile Banking For Marketing And Sales

      With mobile banking gradually starting to displace online banking for the most frequent interactions like balance checks and simple transfers, the time is right for eBusiness executives to start...

      • Downloads: 658
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:Display Media Preferences Change

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Welcome To The Multidevice, Multiconnection World

      Product Loyalty's New Calculus

      Connectivity is becoming a default feature in a diverse range of consumer products, from portables like tablets and eReaders to TVs and Blu-ray players. As the cost of adding connectivity to devices...

      • Downloads: 1421
     
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