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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.
Five Key Metrics For Tracking Progress
Are your interactive marketing efforts keeping pace with the marketplace? In this report for interactive marketers, Forrester identifies the five key benchmarks that help you gauge how well you are...

Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

Charles Newhouse, head of strategy and design in the enterprise IT services group at BAE Systems in the UK, felt that IT's traditional quarterly operational reports were not serving IT or the...

Business Impact: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs...
Performance Management: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics for business technology resiliency (BTR) programs. The current state of BTR metrics is unsatisfactory —...

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...

Benchmarks: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
This report is designed to help CIOs measure and report on the outcomes realized through the BT strategic plan. Specifically, it demonstrates how to link IT initiatives from the strategic plan to the...

Strategic Plan: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their service management and automation (SMA) strategic plan. This is important as the...

Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook
This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...
Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

Performance Management: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the performance management of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on mobile security and operations. This report is designed to help...
Building An EA Program For "Dummies"
As businesses begin to look past the economic downturn, they are executing strategies that require a changed IT mission and plan. This in turn is changing the needs and expectations the EA function...
This report provides insight into corporate mobility adoption trends based on results from Forrester's Forrsights surveys of IT mobility decision-makers and end user workers in North American and...
We are looking for some metrics for IT service desk (ITSD) support. Can you please provide some numbers around first-contact resolution, number of incidents, abandonment rate, average incident...
The Best And Worst Of Online Customer Service Among The Top Four US Airlines
Forrester evaluated the online customer service offerings of the four largest US airlines: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and American Airlines. Our analysis uncovered a few...

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Specialist European Consumer Electronics Retailers
Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to four European consumer electronics retailers: Best Buy UK, Currys, Darty, and Redcoon. These specialist retailers...
Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook
Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...
The Cloud On IT's Horizon
Interest in cloud technology and cloud economics abounds. While the technology delivers immediate reductions in capital costs, Forrester believes that cloud computing's greatest benefits will come...
Put "People Change" Front And Center
Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...
Performance Management: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
The ultimate judges of any strategic planning process are the business technology (BT) users who need to produce business benefits with the technology. The goals, desires, and needs of this group are...

Speak Your Business Partners' Language To Show And Grow Your Worth
The business/IT divide still exists in many organizations, and bridging that gap is difficult if you can't demonstrate the business value your teams deliver. It's past time to transition from...