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
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Untangling The Attribution Web

    Using Cross-Channel Attribution To Understand Marketing Effectiveness

    In an environment where media fragmentation is the status quo, traditional one-to-one, last-touch methods of allocating demand to marketing efforts are outdated and lead to a suboptimal marketing...

    • Downloads: 724
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    Tool:Respondents Represent A Range Of Industries

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Listening Platforms Find Traction In Customer Service Organizations

    Trends 2010: Listening Platforms

    Customer service managers must pragmatically balance the needs of their customers with the needs of their business. Listening platforms allow customer service organizations to better understand how...

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    Charts & Figures:Online Marketing Suite Adoption: Hub And Multichannel Approaches

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    Report:Customer Engagement Agency Progress Reflects Industry Maturity

    During our recent customer engagement agency (CEA) Forrester Wave™, we surveyed more than 100 CEA clients to understand their choice of vendors and the quality of the relationships. We found...

    • Downloads: 136
  • 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 Customer Insights Professionals

    The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Drive Smarter Customer Loyalty With Customer Intelligence

    Customer loyalty is a hot topic. Companies look to loyalty programs to enhance customer knowledge and drive customer retention, revenue, and engagement. But, while they see the potential of loyalty...

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Leverage Social Data To Elevate Customer Intelligence

      Executive Overview: The Social Intelligence Playbook

      Social media's prevalence across the Web gives consumers and brands a new way to connect online. But while most businesses know the importance of social media, most are missing opportunities by not...

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      Report:Five Foundational Requirements For Retail Customer Intelligence

      In the age of the customer, the old rules and standards of database marketing will be the downfall of traditional retailers. While financial services, travel, and a handful of cutting-edge merchants...

      • Downloads: 547
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Loyalty Program Service Providers Struggle To Delight Their Customers

      In researching the Forrester Wave™ evaluation of loyalty program service providers, we surveyed 94 loyalty program service provider customers about their vendor partnerships. We found that...

      • Downloads: 451
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Tool:Attribution Readiness Self-Test: Technology

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The Consumerization Of Customer Analytics

      Landscape: The Customer Analytics Playbook

      The analytics conversation is now front and center for marketers, thanks to the real estate that big data enjoys in mainstream media. As a result of this buzz, customer analytics practitioners who...

      • Downloads: 237
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:CIOs Must Become Customer-Obsessed

      Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer

      The empowered customer is driving new models of business success that are rapidly redefining the CIO's investment agenda in successful firms — the inauguration of what Forrester calls the age...

      • Downloads: 435
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Tool:Australian Online Retailers Will Invest In Online Marketing

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Win The Social Marketing Measurement Game

      Performance Management: The Social Marketing Playbook

      You've no doubt heard the question: "How do we know that social marketing drives sales?" But just as not all TV spots or billboards are intended to drive direct response, not every social marketing...

      • Downloads: 55
    • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

      Report:Use A Metrics Framework To Drive BPM Excellence

      Performance Management: The Business Process Management Playbook

      Advancing technology for business process management (BPM) and analytics is allowing broader and deeper treatment of performance metrics. As a result, defining and using performance metrics is an...

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      Report:Measure Workforce Experience Through Engagement, Productivity, And Customer Impact

      Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Building Successful B2B Financial Services Social Marketing Programs

      Faced with fragmented customer bases and unclear regulatory requirements, business-to-business (B2B) financial services marketers have traditionally shied away from launching social marketing...

      • Downloads: 1164
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:It's Time To Bridge The Audience Data Management Divide

      How Customer Intelligence Can Unify Audience Intelligence Across Channels To Enable Advanced Advertising

      Marketers constantly seek ways to design addressable marketing programs that reduce media waste and create targeting efficiencies: Direct marketers turn to marketing databases to inform audience...

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    • For Technology Marketing Professionals

      Tool:An Interactive Tool For Evaluating Your Swag

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The State Of Online Testing 2010

      Findings From The Forrester Wave™ Evaluation On Online Testing

      During the Forrester Wave™ evaluation of online testing applications, we surveyed 79 online testing customers about their vendor partnerships and online testing practices. Online testing's...

      • Downloads: 503
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Online Testing, Q3 2010

      Adobe And Autonomy Lead A Pack Of Strong Performers

      In Forrester's inaugural evaluation of online testing vendors, we researched eight companies across 82 criteria. We found that Adobe and Autonomy lead the pack because of their consistent strength...

      • Downloads: 1248
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Investing In Tech Marketing, 2011

      Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations

      The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...

      • Downloads: 853
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:How To Get Started With Social Intelligence In A Regulated World

      Apply Customer Intelligence Best Practices To Safely Test Social Data

      Although more and more businesses are adopting social intelligence strategies, regulated companies — such as those in the insurance, finance, pharmaceutical, and healthcare space — remain...

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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Evaluate And Evolve Your Loyalty Program's Intelligence Quotient

      Assessment: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

      Successful intelligence-driven loyalty involves five major components: strategy, data, customer intelligence, offer management, and measurement. This report outlines Forrester's assessment process...

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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Online Testing Platforms, Q1 2013

      How Seven Vendors Are Addressing The Evolution Of Online Testing

      In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of online testing platform vendors, we identified the seven most significant providers — Adobe, Autonomy, Maxymiser, Monetate, Optimizely, SiteSpect, and...

      • Downloads: 449
     
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