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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    Report:Mastering New Marketing Automation Approaches

    Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    The age of the customer ties success to firms' ability to know and serve their customers. Campaigns provide an instrument to drive customer behavior, but traditional campaign approaches can't keep up...

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    Report:Organize For Social Intelligence

    Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...

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    Report:Ten Steps To Successful Social Intelligence Measurement

    Performance Management: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Social media — with its seemingly nebulous returns, such as "engagement" and "advocacy" — often baffles customer intelligence (CI) professionals trying to measure and optimize their...

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    Charts & Figures:The CI Services Ecosystem Focuses On Strategy, Execution, And Analytics

    What CI Professionals Need To Know When Evaluating Their Needs And Vendors

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    Report:A Market Insights Professional's Introduction To Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer

    Disruption is coming — is your company ready? Organizations need to realize that their customers want things faster, better, cheaper, and with a higher degree of service, and technology makes...

    • Downloads: 485
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    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...

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    Report:Revisiting The Enterprise Marketing Software Landscape

    Consolidation And Growth Drive A Dynamic Software Marketplace

    Marketing today is impossible without significant investments in technology. When Forrester first charted the landscape of marketing technologies in 2007, we found that marketers were investing in...

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    Report:How Listening Services Support Social Intelligence

    Customer Intelligence professionals know the power of deriving marketing insight from social media data. But knowing is only half the battle. Not all Customer Intelligence teams come equipped with...

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    The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Leverage Social Data To Elevate Customer Intelligence

    Social media's prevalence across the Web gives consumers and brands a new way to connect online. But while most businesses know the importance of social media, most are missing opportunities by not...

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      Report:The Enterprise Listening Platform Landscape

      Tools And Technology: The Social Intelligence Playbook

      With the incessant growth of social networks, more and more businesses turn to listening platforms — technology and services vendors that help companies manage, learn from, and measure social...

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      Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Puts The Science In Marketing Measurement

      Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

      Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

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      Report:CI Teams: Blocking And Tackling Is Not Enough

      Integrating Customer Data Is Vital, But It's Not The End Goal

      We recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals about their use of analytical applications and priorities. Users are investing in solutions that transform insight into action, but a...

      • Downloads: 321
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      Report:Customer Engagement Agency Progress Reflects Industry Maturity

      During our recent customer engagement agency (CEA) Forrester Wave™, we surveyed more than 100 CEA clients to understand their choice of vendors and the quality of the relationships. We found...

      • Downloads: 133
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      Report:The Role Of Customer Intelligence In Evolving Your Social Maturity

      An Empowered Report: How Data-Driven Strategies Strengthen Empowered Organizations

      An empowered organization gives its employees the resources they need to build relationships with their constantly evolving customers. But many companies still struggle to adapt their marketing...

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      Report:The Evolution Of The Customer Engagement Agency

      As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...

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      Report:How Personal Identity Management Will Change Social Marketing Relationships

      Marketers Must Exchange Value For Customers' Social Data

      Through social interactions on channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, consumers are creating a massive amount of data. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals want this data and are now...

      • Downloads: 386
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      Report:Defining Social Intelligence

      Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook

      Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

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      Report:Two Approaches For Socializing Your Loyalty Program

      Direct Integration With Social Channels Creates The Richest Engagement And Data Opportunities

      Across the globe, more and more consumers are interacting socially than ever before. When it comes to loyalty, social channels provide an opportunity for brands to engage with members beyond the...

      • Downloads: 128
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      Report:How To Make Social Media Data Actionable

      Processes: The Social Intelligence Playbook

      Social media provides customer intelligence (CI) professionals with a wealth of customer data. But every piece of valuable insight is surrounded by noise. Cutting through that noise and getting to...

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      Report:The Total Cost Of Listening

      Business Case: The Social Intelligence Playbook

      Listening platforms are hot and marketers are keen to use consumer conversations to inform marketing and business strategy. But as more businesses adopt listening platforms, the question that comes...

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      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Listening Platforms, Q3 2010

      Converseon, Nielsen, And Radian6 Lead A Fragmented Market

      During the past year, listening platforms continued their evolution beyond basic brand monitoring tools into integral technologies that inform a variety of marketing and business functions like...

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      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...

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      Tool:Improving Customer Experience Is Top Of Mind For CI Professionals

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      Report:Combining Survey Research And Behavioral Tracking Creates Deeper Insights

      Insights And Lessons Learned From Forrester's Social Media Behavioral Tracking Study

      When it comes to gaining quantitative consumer intelligence, market insights professionals can use a wide array of methodologies — including behavioral. Many market insights professionals...

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      Report:Making Sense Of A Chaotic CI Services Landscape

      What CI Professionals Need To Know When Evaluating Their Needs And Vendors

      As Customer Intelligence (CI) becomes the nerve center of the organization, the number of vendors touting CI services as part of their offerings is growing. Vendors, from database marketing service...

      • Downloads: 411
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      Report:Revisiting The Online Marketing Suite

      After several years of relative obscurity and false starts, the online marketing suite is poised to gain steam as marketers focus on resolving multichannel complexity and as vendors seek out new...

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