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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.
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...
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...
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...


A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
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...
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...

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...

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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....

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...
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...
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...

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...
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...

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...

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...

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...
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,...
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...

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...
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...
