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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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Consumer Attitudes Toward Loyalty Programs Deteriorate

    Landscape: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes toward...

    • Downloads: 800
  • 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: 167
  • 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...

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  • For Market Insights Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Demographics And Attitudes

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Move Beyond Campaigns To Tap Hidden Customer Potential

    Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve...

    • Downloads: 88
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

    Landscape: The CRM Playbook

    Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

    • Downloads: 443
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:TechRadar™ For Customer Intelligence Professionals: Customer Loyalty Programs, Q1 2013

    Business Case: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Loyalty technologies play a central role in the execution and differentiation of customer loyalty programs and, more specifically, in driving consumer participation in a program across channels...

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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:A Holistic Measurement System Enables Continuous Improvement

    Performance Management: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

    The seminal idea behind lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) was the need to calibrate marketing's activities (and budget) to the result of revenue generation. But effective performance management of...

    • Downloads: 132
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Gamification: "Level Up" Your Strategic Approach

    Over the past year, marketers have made the shift from learning about the meaning of gamification to incorporating it into their strategies. But so far, the results have been mixed, as the...

    • Downloads: 83
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

    Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers

    Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...

    • Downloads: 394
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Five Ways To Mobilize Your Loyalty Program In 2013

    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...

    • Downloads: 275
  • 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 CMO Professionals

    Report:Assess The Impact Of Touchpoints Along The Consumer Path-To-Purchase

    How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending

    Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...

    • Downloads: 463
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:"Smart Body, Smart World" For Marketers

    Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices

    Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

    • Downloads: 258
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    Report:Mobile App Discovery: Best Practices To Promote Your App

    Most brands would love to have their apps among the top 25 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store or Google Play. With more than one million apps available, there's a great risk that your app...

    • Downloads: 210
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    The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Drive Smarter Customer Loyalty With Customer Intelligence

    Customer loyalty is a hot topic. Companies look to loyalty programs to enhance customer knowledge and drive customer retention, revenue, and engagement. But, while they see the potential of loyalty...

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:The Scientific Method Comes To Marketing

      Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

      When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

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    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:2013 US Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

      Forrester Evaluates The Four Largest Banks' Retail Mobile Offerings

      With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they need to keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail...

      • Downloads: 242
    • For Sales Enablement Professionals

      Report:Provisional L2RM Process Catalog

      This provisional lead-to-revenue process catalog is a companion tool for the processes module of Forrester's lead-to-revenue playbook. Designed to jump-start your own process documentation, it...

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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...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:The ROI Of "Owner" Communities

      A Tool To Help You Uncover The Economic Value Of Your Community

      Two of the most common questions we receive from B2B marketers are "How do I know if it's worth having a community?" and "How can I prove to my executives that my community is worth their...

      • Downloads: 193
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      Report:The Skills And Structures For L2R Success

      Organization: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

      B2B marketers are adopting the lead-to-revenue (L2R) concept to ensure that revenue goals are met on time by optimizing the balance among lead value, velocity, and volumes, as well as ensuring that...

      • Downloads: 131
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2012 To 2017 (US)

      ForecastView Spreadsheet

      Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...

      • Downloads: 8
    • For Sales Enablement Professionals

      Report:Using A Results Chain To Model Your Lead-to-Revenue Process

      This results chain toolkit is a companion tool for the processes module of Forrester's lead-to-revenue playbook. Forrester recommends that B2B marketing leaders use a results chain model to frame and...

      • Downloads: 21
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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Don't Confuse Tablet And Mobile Marketing

      Contextual Marketing Demands A Unique Approach To Tablets

      Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used within...

      • For Sales Enablement Professionals

        Report:Tools For Defining And Documenting L2R Processes

        The goal of lead-to-revenue (L2R) process management is not to move hundreds or thousands of "leads" through a process of sequential attrition until tens or hundreds of deals emerge. The goal of the...

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