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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  • Customer Intelligence Strategy and Process
  • Consumer Electronics & Technology
  • For Security & Risk Professionals

    Report:Apply Identity And Access Management Techniques To Consumer Data

    Personal Identity Management

    Customer intelligence (CI) professionals face increasing pressure to give consumers greater control over the data that organizations collect about them. Forrester has published a report predicting...

    • Downloads: 327
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Splinternet Engagement Index

    Analyzing Your Customers' Engagement Across Touchpoints

    The splinternet — the fragmented world of incompatible web, social, video, and mobile touchpoints — is where your customers live now. They want to reach you in more touchpoints, but you...

    • Downloads: 625
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Emerging Touchpoints Require A Marketing Mind Shift

    Vision: The Emerging Touchpoints For Marketing Playbook

    Emerging technologies — from smart objects and wearables to behind-the-scenes taxonomy tools — radically change how your customers think, act, and relate to others. Marketers who try to...

    • Downloads: 406
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Personal Identity Management Success Starts With Customer Understanding

    With the increase in high-profile data breaches and the recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlements that hold Facebook, Google, and Twitter accountable to strict privacy audit guidelines,...

    • Downloads: 356
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Personal Identity Management

    Preparing For A World Of Consumer-Managed Data

    Consumers are leaving an exponentially growing digital footprint across channels and media, and they are awakening to the fact that marketers use this data for financial gain. This, combined with...

    • Downloads: 708
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Online Display Advertising Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (US)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Online display avertising forecast: Online and offline advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by pricing scheme, media format, and share of spending through ad networks....

    • For CMO Professionals

      Report:CMOs Must Connect The Dots Of The Online Brand

      Orchestrate Digital For The Best Brand Experience

      Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels — Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other...

      • Downloads: 906
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Forrester's Paid Content Checklist

      Use A Structured Framework To Build A Digital Paid Content Strategy

      There are few examples of companies operating a successful paid digital content strategy. Yet there is a strong need for all companies offering content — many of them not traditional media...

      • Downloads: 532
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Online Retailing In Australia 2011: Marketing, Merchandising, And Customer Service

      Despite the momentum in Australian online retail, the sector is still quite focused on the basics of customer engagement. When it comes to marketing, this means online retailers don't just prioritize...

      • Downloads: 260
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Case Study: Philips Achieves Consumer Proximity Using Private Online Communities

      An Empowered Report

      Consumer product strategists within Philips have successfully used private online communities to reach what they call "consumer proximity." Nestled within the Consumer & Market Intelligence group in...

      • Downloads: 346
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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016

      Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...

      • Downloads: 1551
     
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