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 Technographics
  • Past 18 months
  • Interactive Marketing Strategy and Process
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

    • Downloads: 45
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How Consumers Find Websites In 2011

    And Why Multitouchpoint Campaigns Will Drive Value, Not Just Traffic

    As in years past, natural search results, links, and personal emails are the most cited resources for finding websites. But take note: Social media — in particular social networks —...

    • Downloads: 835
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Objectives Are The Key To Social Strategy

    Strategic Plan: The Social Marketing Playbook

    We're several years into the social marketing boom, but still many executives are going about social strategy backward: picking technologies like Facebook or Twitter first instead of focusing on what...

    • Downloads: 3708
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Gen X And Gen Y Lead The Consumer Shift To Multitasking

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Updated Q1 2012: Use Social Media To Boost Your TV Audience

    Social media is changing the way audiences engage with TV. Led by Generation X and Generation Y, audiences are increasingly multitasking on digital devices while watching TV — and sharing what...

    • Downloads: 520
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Boost Your Content Ecosystem With Video

    How To Use Online Video Content To Drive Results

    Consumption of online video content is popular and growing. Yet most marketers rely on in-stream advertising as their only marketing approach for online video. This report explains the advantages...

    • Downloads: 571
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Global Social Media Adoption In 2011

    A Review Of Forrester's Social Technographics® Data From Around The World

    Social media has gone global: The majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metropolitan Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. But usage patterns vary widely by country and...

    • Downloads: 763
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The New Messaging Mandate

    Vision: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report lays out Forrester's vision of email marketing for interactive marketers: Integrate email into a multichannel conversation that includes a number of non-email communication vehicles. Why?...

    • Downloads: 978
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Tap Into Social Media's Unexpected Global Hotspots

    Global Social Media Adoption In 2011 And What Interactive Marketers Should Do About It

    It's no secret that the groundswell has gone global: Internet users all over the planet have embraced social media. But there are strong differences from country to country in how people use social...

    • Downloads: 286
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Power Your Brand Ecosystem With Social Media

    Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook

    You already know your audience uses social media; one minute they're planning vacations on Twitter and the next they're toppling governments with the help of Facebook. And because your customers use...

    • Downloads: 1058
    • Comments: 2
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Understanding Customer Service Satisfaction To Inform Your 2012 eBusiness Strategy

    Online consumers' preferences for online customer service channels are evolving. More online consumers have adopted online self-service in the past two years; it has also disappointed more consumers....

    • Downloads: 744
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:European eBusiness Executives Take A Cautious Approach To Daily Deals

    Brand And Margin Protection Inhibit Adoption, But Other Approaches Are Emerging

    Skepticism is the watchword across Europe as eBusiness executives consider engaging with daily deals sites such as Groupon and Living Social. Concerns about brand damage and sales cannibalization are...

    • Downloads: 157
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Innovate Interactive Healthcare Marketing Without Rocking The Boat

    Online healthcare marketing is a big opportunity; while interactive spending will grow rapidly over the next four years, the overall industry remains conservative in spend and innovation. Digital...

    • Downloads: 594
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Winning Social Media Marketing In China

    Identify The Right Social Platform To Reach Your Audience And Achieve Your Objectives

    Most marketers realize the importance of going social to reach hypersocial Chinese consumers — but China's highly fragmented social media landscape makes it challenging to select the right...

    • Downloads: 135
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Consumers Want Online Advertising To Be Relevant, Respectful, And Rewarding

    Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, September 2012

    In the age of the always addressable customer, where hyperconnected consumers are increasingly savvy and demanding of the brands with which they interact, marketers must become more audience-centric...

    • Downloads: 11
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Mobile Mind Shift Index

    Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations

    Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

    • Downloads: 484
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Digital Natives: A Demographic Overview

    North American Technographics®

    Digital natives have grown up in the age of technology and cannot imagine a life without computers, cell phones, and social networking. Although digital natives may not have large amounts of...

    • Downloads: 144
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Push Traditional Budgets Online In Emerging Markets

    Interactive Marketing Is The Best Way To Reach Attractive Consumers In The BRICs And Beyond

    Interactive marketing often takes a back seat in emerging markets, a victim of the low online penetration in these countries and of local marketing teams who lack experience with interactive tools....

    • Downloads: 256
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Twitter: The Public Forum For Your Brand

    How Interactive Marketers Should Tap Twitter For Real Business Results

    With Twitter's usage numbers ballooning and its recent announcement of brand pages, interactive marketers are paying attention. Recognizing its potential across the marketing mix, many have already...

    • Downloads: 671
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Always Addressable Customer

    Vision: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

    This report introduces Forrester's vision of mobile marketing for interactive marketing professionals: Discover the new ultra-connected customer, for whom mobile is the key touchpoint. In 2010, we...

    • Downloads: 783
    • Comments: 1
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Look To Asia To Inspire And Pilot Your Marketing Innovation

    Asian markets are key for international brands: With 60% of the world's population and continuing economic growth, senior marketers are paying close attention to the region's potential. CMOs should...

    • Downloads: 204
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How To Defuse Digital Marketing Privacy Concerns

    Stay Ahead Of Privacy Legislation By Creating A Value-For-Data Exchange

    Recent advances in audience targeting point to a digital marketing future that leverages consumer data to create personalized messaging and drive higher conversions. However, this potential is...

    • Downloads: 371
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Global Social Media Adoption

    Landscape: The Social Marketing Playbook

    Social media has gone global: The large majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metro Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. For marketers, the question is no longer whether...

    • Downloads: 1034
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Survey:Hispanic Technographics® Online Survey, Q4 2011 (US)

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 4,030 US Hispanic individuals ages 18 to 75. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,030), there is 95%...

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The Facebook Factor

      Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions

      Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

      • Downloads: 1241
      • Comments: 4
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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Social Media Marketing In China

      How And Where To Tap Into China's Hypersocial Online Population

      Chinese online adults are among the most socially active we survey anywhere in the world — so if you're aiming to reach Chinese audiences you'd be wise to invest in social media. But this...

      • Downloads: 335
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