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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  • Consumer Electronics & Technology
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:3D TV Fails To Inspire Consumers In 2010

    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...

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    Report:How eReaders Will Fare In A Tablet PC World

    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...

    • Downloads: 974
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Build A Digital Relationship With Your Customer

    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...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Charts & Figures:The Co-Operative Bank Offers A State-Of-The-Art Branch Finder

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Which Device Offers The Best Music Experience?

    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...

    • Downloads: 432
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Portable Media Players Must Evolve With Cloud Or Become Extinct

    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...

    • Downloads: 469
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Reinvigorating Traditional Radio

    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...

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    Report:Forrester Research eReader Forecast, 2010 To 2015 (US)

    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...

    • Downloads: 14
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Tablet And eReader Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

    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...

    • Downloads: 3
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Tool:Forrester Measures Web Sites' Ability To Move Visitors Toward Their Goals

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Online Video Best Practice

    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...

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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To The Future Of Online Customer Experience

    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...

    • Downloads: 1011
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The Alternative Payment Methods Landscape For Travel eBusiness

    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...

    • Downloads: 550
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Call Center Experiences Leave Consumers On Hold For Something Better

    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...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Survey:European Technographics® Consumer Technology Online Survey Q4 2012

    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...

    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Consumers Share Changes In Shopping Habits As A Result Of The Economic Downturn

      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...

      • Downloads: 10
    • For CMO Professionals

      Report:Marketing Leaders' Approach To Content Creation For Brands

      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...

      • Downloads: 670
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Why The EU ePrivacy Law Will Not Kill eCommerce

      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...

      • Downloads: 206
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:Welcome To The Empowered Era

      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...

      • Downloads: 1198
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of US Online Consumers, 2012

      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...

      • Downloads: 134
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Put Video At The Heart Of Your Content Strategy

      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...

      • Downloads: 844
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Can't Pay, Won't Pay: Why Paid Digital Content Isn't Working

      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...

      • Downloads: 914
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Executive Q&A: iPads And Tablets

      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...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:PC And Mobile Internet Usage Growth

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Tablets Will Grow As Fast As MP3 Players

      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...

      • Downloads: 1776
    • For CIO Professionals

      Tool:TechRadar™: Creation Phase Technologies

     
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