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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    Blog:Want To Launch Mobile App? Ask Yourself The Tough Questions

    Mobile website or mobile app? It's not only a common question from marketers -- it’s also the wrong question to ask. So let’s get this out of the way first, interactive marketers: You...

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      Report:Navigate The Mobile Opportunity With Strategic Partnerships

      Landscape: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

      This report for interactive marketers describes the mobile marketing landscape. Interactive marketers are finally beginning to take mobile seriously — and discovering how different and more...

      • Downloads: 724
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      Report:Build A Push And Pull Social Marketing Process

      Organization: The Social Marketing Playbook

      To prepare for the future of interactive marketing, as marketers you must follow the CORE directive to: customize marketing experiences, optimize decisions and processes, respond to changing market...

      • Downloads: 993
      • Comments: 3
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      Charts & Figures:Verizon FiOS's iPad App Has 3.5 Stars

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      Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

      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...

      • Downloads: 532
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      Blog:Spice Up Your Next Meeting: Play The Customer Journey Game

      The following is a guest post by Kara Hoisington, a member of the terrific advisor team for Forrester's Interactive Marketing Council.   .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links...

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        Report:Advance Through The Stages Of Mobile Maturity

        Road Map: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

        This report provides a road map for interactive marketers who are responsible for mobile marketing. As consumer mobile adoption balloons and as hardware, software, and interfaces evolve, interactive...

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        Blog:Sophisticated, demanding mobile customers: Ready or not, here they come!

        A few weeks ago, my dad and I were talking about the policy on airplanes to turn off all devices from the time the door closes until the plane has reached 10,000 feet.  My point: I don’t...

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          Report:Train Your Team For Social Marketing Success

          Continuous Improvement: The Social Marketing Playbook

          Interactive marketers' success in social media has attracted other departments' attention. But well-meaning nonmarketers sometimes commit risky blunders as they join the fray. To ensure that social...

          • Downloads: 868
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          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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          Report:2013 Interactive Marketing Predictions

          The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing

          In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...

          • Downloads: 681
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          Report:Craft A Maturity-Based Mobile Strategy

          Strategic Plan: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

          This report helps interactive marketers craft a strategic plan for their mobile marketing. Mobile is hot. As with most hot topics in technology, marketers may be tempted to adopt strategies that are...

          • Downloads: 373
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          Blog:How to Become a Mature Mobile Marketer

          Sixty-seven percent of interactive marketers are currently using mobile or are planning to start using it in the next year, according to our Q2 global executive survey. That’s great news! But...

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            Blog:Perpetual Connectivity Will Change How We Experience The World

            Devices are proliferating, and we’ve all seen the data to prove it: More than half of US consumers now own smartphones, and nearly 20% own a tablet. And it’s not just device ownership...

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              Blog:Mobile Marketers: I'm Looking For You!

              Those of you who know my research won’t be surprised to learn that I’m currently working on a collection of mobile marketing reports that will eventually make up our mobile marketing...

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                Blog:Officially Introducing The Always Addressable Customer

                Today, at long last, we published our report officially introducing the always addressable customer, though I (and others) have been talking about it for a while now. Just to refresh your...

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                  Report:Mobile Apps For Marketing

                  When And How Interactive Marketers Should Build Apps For Marketing Purposes

                  Mobile apps hold exciting potential for interactive marketers to reach their audiences through mobile devices in ways the mobile Web can't. But today, mobile apps receive a mixed response from...

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