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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.
Most People Are Happy To Wait To Upgrade To 3D TV
At the opening of 2010, the world's largest TV manufacturers came to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) full of heady promises about the future of 3D TV. Despite the success of 3D films at the box...
US eReader Forecast, 2010 To 2015
eReaders face a formidable challenge from the rise of tablet PCs. The iPad is already desired by more people than any single eReader, something we expect to only increase with time. However, with...
Why The Most Solid Thing In Your Product Strategy Is Virtual
All consumer product strategists should sit up and take notice: There's a critical lesson to learn from the most recent changes in the media industry. While most in the business have obsessed over...


From set-top boxes to cell phones, device makers are falling over themselves to offer music functionality. Digital music services have also evolved to "anytime, anywhere" access with rich discovery...
Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition
Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...
What Radio Strategists Can Do Right Now To Regain Momentum
Despite challenging times, traditional radio has a lot of unique strengths that it can leverage to survive and thrive in the current media climate. While it's a formidable competitor to traditional...

Reading device unit sales and users (dedicated eReader, mobile phone, desktop PC, laptop/notebook PC, netbook/mini PC, tablet PC). eBook readers by device and eBook revenue. Includes historical data...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Sales and installed base for tablet and eReader devices as well as book market spending for 16 Western European countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country...
Benchmarking Web Sites Using Forrester's Online Video Product Scorecard
Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for adding video to your Web site. In this report, we demonstrate how our online video product...

The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...
The Payment Methods That Appeal Most And Least To Leisure Travel Bookers
Since 2007, US travelers' usage and interest in alternative payment methods (APMs) for online travel purchases has been slowly, but steadily, increasing. Fifteen percent of US online leisure travel...
Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Call Center Agent Interactions Across 13 Industries
Consumers report low satisfaction for conversations with call center agents. PC manufacturers, TV service providers, and Internet service providers receive the brunt of their ire. The good news? The...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August and September 2012 of 13,518 European individuals ages 16 to 92. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 13,518), there...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, February 2012
The economic recession has turned consumers into savvy bargain hunters. Now more than ever, they are on the lookout for the best deals and lowest prices they can find. Forrester conducted qualitative...
Four Examples Show How To Experiment In Branded Content Development
Marketers have long relied on advertising and their agencies to help tell the story of their brands. As consumers become immune to traditional advertising and ad clutter and fragmentation limits ad...
Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers
In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...
An Empowered Report: Reinvent Yourself To Serve Empowered Customers And Employees
Your customers and your employees have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources. To succeed in an era...
North American Consumer Technographics®
US consumers today are exposed to more kinds of connected devices than ever before. Consumers associate the terms "going online" or "using the Internet" with devices like laptops and desktops. Social...
An Empowered Report: Content Is A Product, Too
Disruptive consumer behavior is profoundly affecting your ability to engage consumers through traditional media and marketing channels. Empowered product strategists within your organization must be...
Use SPARC To Create Digital Content Experiences That Users Will Pay For
Sales of paid digital content have stalled, although consumer demand for many services is still growing. Despite a clear and profound shift in the way we access and consume media content, traditional...
Consumer Product Strategists' Critical Questions Answered
In the nine months since Apple's iPad hit the shelves, Forrester has conducted more than 200 conversations about iPads and tablets with clients through inquiries, one-on-one meetings at Forrester's...
Winning Tablet Product Strategies Will Exploit Both Apps And Browsers
Product strategists are struggling to make sense of the tablet opportunity: Will there be a market for tablets beyond Apple's iPad, and if so, how big will it be? In this report, we present data from...