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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.
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...
Mastering The Customer Data Flow Requires Marketing And IT To Join Forces
Today's marketing organization must use technology to deliver compelling brand experiences and drive business growth. Today's IT organizations must tune their efforts to needs of the business. This...
Road Map: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix optimization (MMO) has become an indispensable discipline for marketing leaders because it helps in effectively allocating marketing budgets across an increasingly fragmented media and...

Empowered buyers, disruptive digital innovations, and removal of global and traditional boundaries erase traditional types of competitive advantage. We are now in an era in which competition comes...
Use Forrester's Marketing Automation Maturity Model To Map Your Strategy
Business-to-business (B2B) marketers use technology to aggressively push more leads into the top of the sales funnel. Businesses have changed their buying behavior, and while the capabilities of the...
In the report, "How To Define The Role Of Digital In Integrated Campaigns," Forrester identified four ways for marketers to use digital assets more strategically in their integrated marketing...
Four Ways To Strategically Add Value To Multichannel Marketing
Marketers continue to treat digital channels as an afterthought of their integrated campaigns, instead of as strategic assets. But it's time for marketers to rethink their approach to multichannel...
Follow The Customer Life Cycle To Influence Pre-Store Purchase Decisions
Shopper marketing is expanding beyond the brick-and-mortar world as frugal and in-the-know consumers use technology to inform their purchases. This shift will create a proliferation of marketing...
Changing buyer behaviors require business-to-business (B2B) marketers to communicate with prospects and customers in new ways, by delivering content that is personalized to their needs, role, level...
Only Customer-Obsessed Companies Can Survive Disruption
Empowered customers are disrupting every industry; competitive barriers like manufacturing strength, distribution power, and information mastery can't save you. In this age of the customer, the only...
New Technologies Push The Boundaries Of Customer Engagement
CMOs need to keep an eye on emerging technologies that have the potential to improve customer engagement levels. This third report in our series on emerging technologies explores tools and...

How To Transform Product Transactions Into Brand Moments
Innovative marketers are reinventing how consumers engage with their products by transforming yesterday's transactional vending machines into today's powerful brand experience machines. Some...
Landscape: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is no longer just a tool for consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers to measure the effect of traditional marketing on overall sales. Today, marketing mix modeling can help all...

Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation
After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...
Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing
Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

How To Diagnose And Treat Your Brand's Resilience And Responsiveness
CMOs who remain detached from the everyday pulse of consumer sentiment are putting their brands at great risk. A brand's health is more vulnerable in the digital age as consumer opinion travels...
The hope of greater margins and more control may drive a consumer goods company to embrace direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. But while those are sound reasons to sell directly, they sell the value of...