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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.
How CORE Can Help Improve Your Interactive Sophistication
Interactive marketer maturity today looks strikingly like it did when we introduced our original interactive marketing maturity model in 2008. This is likely due to increased market complexity and...

Display media, email, and search are still the most well-adopted interactive tactics. But this year's interactive marketing channel adoption study finds interactive marketers more willing than last...
Data security isn't necessarily a sexy topic, but the impact of a recent data breach raised awareness within the email marketing industry, among consumers and Congress. To maintain consumer trust and...
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...

Grow Your Interactive Team's Influence, Not Just Its Size
Interactive marketing teams have grown since 2009 — but big doesn't equal mature. Interactive marketing maturity correlates to nimble processes and facility with data-driven marketing, which...

We would like to discuss team/organizational structures from an interactive marketing perspective.

Marketers Move Toward Multichannel Planning And Execution
Interactive marketers are working hard to keep up with the evolving landscape of channels, tools, and technologies at their disposal for 2011 budget planning. Seventy percent of marketers expect...
How Embracing CORE Directives Will Help You Foster Adaptability
Interactivity is changing life as we know it, a scope too big for most firms' siloed, understaffed interactive marketing organizations. The solution? To customize, optimize, respond, and empower...
Forrester updated its Email Marketing Review (EMR) methodology to reflect interactive media changes that affect email marketing efficiency and relevance. As with our past email review methodologies,...
How To Convince Your Firm To Trial New Interactive Marketing Programs
Organizations are naturally resistant to change, particularly ones that require adopting experimental interactive technologies. But interactive marketers can help their organizations adopt...
Attract, Nurture, And Activate Top Talent To Create A Virtuous Cycle For Staffing
Interactive marketing teams are poised for growth. But acquiring and retaining top talent is tricky because hiring practices don't align with candidate habits and culture — and competition for...
Can abandoned cart emails be sent to consumers who have opted out from email marketing? Are abandoned cart emails considered marketing messages (under CAN-SPAM) or customer service messages? Our...
Introducing Forrester's Search Marketing Review Methodology 2.0
Paid search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are still mainstays in the interactive marketer's toolkit. And many legacy best practices still apply to paid search and SEO. However,...

B2B email marketing programs still trail B2C programs in terms of their customer centricity, in part because of the complexity of business products, the poor alignment of marketing and sales, and...
You Should Prepare For A Distributed Organizational Model — Here's How
The question of how marketers should staff and structure their internal interactive organizations is growing more common as the interactive marketing function takes a more central role in overall...