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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.
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CMOs continue to fall short in marketing innovation. Most marketers experiment instead, putting the lion's share of their investment into testing one P of the marketing mix: promotion. While new...
Executive Overview: The B2B Online Community Playbook
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eBusiness Has A Key Role In The Understanding And Usage Of Social Media
Forrester recently published an analysis of the social habits of financial service customers along with a scan of current regulations and existing social marketing efforts. Overall, social media...
Today, healthcare remains a largely in-person proposition, but with the advancement of Internet-based videoconferencing technologies, the possibility of healthcare video visits is becoming a reality....
Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...
Consumers Have Embraced All Touchpoints, And So Should eBusiness Professionals
Today, European consumers face a wide range of touchpoints and have adopted a complex purchasing journey. These consumers use more than one channel to research and buy a product, and they are...
How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative
As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...

Publishers Must Expand Ad Products To Address Advertiser DMP Adoption
Advertisers are adopting data management platforms (DMPs) and planning for more sophisticated audience targeting tactics, including the use of first-party advertiser data. These tactics will put...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four US Mass Merchants
In the large-format mass merchant sector, Wal-Mart and Target have successfully implemented market-leading online retail functionality and connected consumer touchpoints to enhance their customer...

An Empowered Report: How Online And Mobile Behaviors Are Changing
For more than 10 years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Europe. Our trending data shows that while consumers are continuing to expand their online behaviors,...
Social Gaming Provides A Ripe Marketing Opportunity
Eighty-four percent of US interactive marketers have no plans to use games in their 2011 marketing strategies, making social gaming a large, untapped opportunity for marketers. Marketers should start...
Asia Pacific Consumer Technographics®
For the past six years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. Similar to recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online...
Interactive attribution is a key measurement strategy that provides a deeper understanding of the contribution of each digital marketing contact along the customer journey. By using attribution,...
Choosing An Approach To Meet Your Objectives Cost-Effectively
The browser-based mobile Web experience is more important than ever, with dramatic growth in the usage of the mobile Internet — especially from smartphones — in the past 24 months. In...
Knowing Which Generators Customers Use For Information Is Paramount
Tech vendors' returns on marketing messaging are shaped as much by where it's said and who says it as by what is said. Indeed, social media grants "others," including customers and partners,...
The Most Valuable Searchers Click On Both Paid And Natural Listings
Search marketers often try to profile consumers who click on paid ads against those who prefer natural search results. But the reality is there is little discernable difference between paid and...

A Framework For Determining If Tablet Advertising Is Right For You
Unique features and new types of consumer engagement on tablet devices create challenges for brand marketers as they test a new emerging media channel. To assist with this challenge, Forrester...