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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.
Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations
Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

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Market Insights Needs To Invest In Richer Data, Technology, And Skills To Prepare For The Future
The market insights industry is at a crossroads. Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change is happening much more quickly and having a bigger impact on...
Assessment: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
To ensure that stakeholders have the information they need to succeed — if not survive — in an age of customer power and heightened competitive disruption, market insights professionals...
Market research online communities (MROCs) are an increasingly popular qualitative research method. They allow market insights professionals to engage with consumers via a number of different...

Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module
One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...

Medallia And MarketTools Lead With Strong Performers Close Behind
In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of enterprise feedback management (EFM) satisfaction and loyalty solutions, we found that Medallia and MarketTools led the pack with comprehensive software...
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Emerging Market Research Methodology: Prediction Markets Are Your Innovation And Market Assessment Barometer Tool
Market insights professionals are repeatedly tasked with delivering quick insights that will accurately predict what consumers will do or buy in the future. Traditional research methods do not always...
Customer segmentation has featured in the marketing tool kit for a long time as a means to understand customers and develop targeted communications. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals use...

Mobile market research is a growing topic of conversation among market insights professionals. However, one aspect of mobile that is not often discussed but that has significant data implications for...
Forrester conducted a survey from April to June 2012 of 3,181 individuals ages 16 and older across urban Russia. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 3,181), there is 95%...
Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions
Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

In our recent study of database marketing service providers (MSPs), we found that MSPs exist in a diverse vendor ecosystem but enjoy significant customer loyalty. While most firms prioritize deep...
Bringing Social Intelligence Into The Research Fold
Social media is here to stay, and the world of market research cannot ignore it any longer. Yet while most market insights professionals are interested in the concept of using social media as a...
How Market Insights Professionals Can Overcome Biases In Consumer Research
The field of behavioral economics is gaining increased attention in the marketing world. Unlike standard economic theory, which assumes that consumers are informed and make rational decisions to...

Despite professed customer centricity, many firms don't think to involve customers, employees, or key delivery partners in the experience design process. This oversight costs firms precious time and...

Where To Find Help For Web Design Projects, 2010
The design of the customer experience is central to any new platform or replatforming project, regardless of scale and channel. Selecting the right Web design vendor can be stressful and complicated....
Landscape: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
Businesses face pressure from increased competition in a flat world and are also dealing with financial crises, the exponential growth of technological changes, Internet-enabled customer power, and...
The Technology Tool That Will Help Market Insights Professionals Bring The Research Data Streams Within The Organization Together
Companies are in a unique position today: They have an unprecedented ability to collect information about their customers through various channels. However, what has arisen from what one would...