Vikram Sehgal

VP, Research Director - Data serving Customer Insights PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

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.


Education

Vikram earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech and a B.Com from N.M College in Mumbai, India.

Research Coverage:

Refine your results

Date Range

Role

Methodology

Analyst

Industry

Region

Vendor

62 results in Everything

  • Integrated Marketing (Cross-Channel)
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To Owned, Paid, And Earned Media

    The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...

    • Downloads: 709
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    The Email Marketing Playbook

    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...

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Marketing Mix Modeling Landscape Overview

      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...

      • Downloads: 1210
      • Rating:
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Charts & Figures:Enable Ratings And Reviews To Differentiate From Other Search Results

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Mastering New Marketing Automation Approaches

      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...

      • Downloads: 459
      • Rating:
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:How To Integrate Email With Search Marketing

      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...

      • Downloads: 753
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:2011 Interactive Marketing Predictions

      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...

      • Downloads: 1512
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Balance User Needs With Business Goals

      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...

      • Downloads: 250
    • For Sales Enablement Professionals

      Report:Tech Channels Have A Long Way To Go Toward Adding Marketing Value

      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...

      • Downloads: 191
      • Comments: 1
      • Rating:
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:CI Professionals: Plan For The Future Of Cross-Channel Marketing

      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...

      • Downloads: 868
      • Rating:
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Adapting To Media Fragmentation In Europe

      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...

      • Downloads: 379
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Midyear Planning: Predictions For 2011

      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...

      • Downloads: 1295
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Marketing To Millennials: The Next Generation Of Purchasing Power

      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...

      • Downloads: 1057
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Mix Art And Science For Marketing Success

      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...

      • Downloads: 385
      • Rating:
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Client Inquiry:Best Practice Examples Of Integrating Television With Social Media

      What are some best practice examples of integrating television with social media — not just in content/programming terms, but also in advertising terms?

      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Remarketing Done Right

        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...

        • Downloads: 643
        • Rating:
      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Puts The Science In Marketing Measurement

        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...

        • Downloads: 343
        • Rating:
      • For Interactive Marketing Professionals

        Report:The Forrester Wave™: Marketing Mix Modeling, Q2 2013

        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,...

        • Downloads: 14
      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:CI Teams: Blocking And Tackling Is Not Enough

        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...

        • Downloads: 321
      • For CMO Professionals

        Report:Embed The Customer Life Cycle Across Marketing

        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...

        • Downloads: 443
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:The Always Addressable Customer

        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...

        • Downloads: 748
        • Comments: 1
        • Rating:
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (US)

        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...

        • Downloads: 2
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:How To Integrate Search With Social Media

        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...

        • Downloads: 1017
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Agencies Deliver Strategic Mobile Display Expertise

        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...

        • Downloads: 523
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Mobile Unifies The Online-Offline World

        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...

        • Downloads: 655
       
      Loading...

      Browse

      About Forrester

      Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology.

      Roles We Serve

      Forrester supports leaders in 13 roles across three distinct client segments: Business Technology, Marketing & Strategy, and Technology Industry.

      Analysts & Coverage Areas

      Aligned to your professional role, Forrester's analysts are experts in the specific technologies, issues, and trends currently impacting your business.

      Forrester Leadership Boards

      Fresh thinking and collaborative problem-solving through an unmatched combination of peer networking, forward-looking analysis, and professional guidance.

      Consulting

      Our expert analysts provide custom research-based frameworks to guide you through each phase of your critical business initiatives from identifying opportunity to optimizing results.

      Community

      Connect with peers and analysts, share your views, and ask questions on key business issues.

      Blog

      Forrester analysts weigh in on the latest business and technology news.

      • BROWSE
      • Register
      • Call +1 617.613.5730
      • Cart