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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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Graduate From Email To Integrated Messaging
The rules for how to best message your users are changing. Now your customers check their email, text messages, and social media posts in parallel. Even trickier: People tap their inboxes from...
The fragmented media landscape makes accurate attribution of successful marketing efforts increasingly difficult. As a result, marketing leaders are under greater pressure than ever to bring...


Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
The age of the customer ties success to firms' ability to know and serve their customers. Campaigns provide an instrument to drive customer behavior, but traditional campaign approaches can't keep up...

Coordinating Email And Search Can Jump-Start Integrated Marketing
Interactive marketers can ease into integrated marketing by starting small and coordinating the efforts of two of the more established channels: email and search. This process requires simple changes...
Reorganize To Tear Down Channel Ghettos And Focus On The Customer
Flush with cash, interactive marketers will experiment aggressively in 2011, using the careful planning and execution learned in the recent downturn to increase the success rate of innovations. Look...
Strategic Plan: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report articulates a strategic plan for how interactive marketers can improve their email programs today and create humanized, integrated messages in the future. We recommend marketers build...
Despite Vendor Efforts To Marketing-Enable Their Partners, Partners Still View Channels As Implementers, Not Influencers
Is your channel marketing enablement program first-rate? Sorry to break it to you, but we have reason to believe it's not. Tech vendors are investing more than ever today to empower their channel as...

The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

The Impact Of Media Fragmentation Patterns On Communication Strategy
Consumers across Europe are embracing new media platforms that change the way they consume content. This year's European Technographics® data shows a continuous growth in the amount of time...
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...
Why Marketers Must Use A Skillful Approach To Reach Millennials Effectively
As Millennials continue to flow into the workforce, marketers will naturally focus more of their efforts on this emerging adult generation with increasing purchasing power. However, Millennials are...
Vision: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketers have access to more marketing channels than ever before — but most of them are struggling to cope with this increasing complexity. For CMOs and senior marketers, all of these new...

What are some best practice examples of integrating television with social media — not just in content/programming terms, but also in advertising terms?
Maximize Display Effectiveness By Optimizing Your Approach
New upstarts like Dotomi and FetchBack have recently invigorated interest in the value of remarketing, but it's a tried-and-true display tactic that's been around for years. Marketers can...

Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Integrating Customer Data Is Vital, But It's Not The End Goal
We recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals about their use of analytical applications and priorities. Users are investing in solutions that transform insight into action, but a...
Vision: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
Today's empowered customer has the world at her fingertips — literally — through the multiple keyboards and connections to opinions all throughout her day. The challenge for today's...
Vision: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report introduces Forrester's vision of mobile marketing for interactive marketing professionals: Discover the new ultra-connected customer, for whom mobile is the key touchpoint. In 2010, we...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Social media forecast (US): Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, and technology spending. Agency fees spending is broken out by...
Today, consumers increasingly rely on social media as a source for finding information online. This means marketers must adapt their search marketing strategies in order to be found. We recommend...
The explosive growth of smartphones has created an opportunity for mobile display that marketers are beginning to realize. But confusion in the vendor landscape has led marketers to go straight to...
New Mobile Ad Formats Help Shape The Marketing Continuum
After more than a decade of fast-paced innovation, mobile is creating a link between digital ads and their physical-world counterparts in magazines, billboards, bar codes, and aisles. With new mobile...