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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.
Twelve Trends Drive Planning For Customer-Centric Process Transformation
The fundamental business needs that drive the requirement for effective and efficient customer management practices remain unchanged for 2011: acquiring new customers; building tighter bonds of...

An Empowered Report: Sizing The Opportunity As Individuals Embrace New Services For Managing Their Work And Personal Digital Lives
Engage With Early-Stage Buyers, Drive Pipeline And Revenue Performance
Today's empowered technology buyers are two-thirds of the way through their buying process before they engage with tech vendors' sales teams. Forrester believes that a robust lead-nurturing program...
I just read Forrester's August 2, 2011, "The Pipeline Is Less Than Half Empty" report and wondered if less than 30% of all leads are marketing generated, on a good day, where does the other 70+% come...
Financing, Marketing, And Collaboration Top Their Wish Lists
Channel partners are afflicted with "cloud identity disorder" — the symptomatology of which is characterized by confusion and fear about their place in the cloud computing demand chain and...
Although B2B marketers have been historically cautious of emerging media channels, 45% of B2B marketers believe that mobile marketing's effectiveness will increase in upcoming years. As B2B marketers...
Internet Innovation Is Incubating In The Mobile Crucible
The future of the Internet is now being shaped on new mobile networks and ever smarter mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. The 2011 edition of Mobile World Congress (MWC) showcased the future of...
Classroom Technology Enables New Product Innovation
"Gamification" is a hot topic in product strategy, especially in US K-12 education. Product strategists in education are helping their customers achieve teaching and learning goals by developing...

Lessons For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals
See many hybrid vehicles while driving to work? No? These cars have been sold for more than 10 years, yet adoption is still low. Using our Convenience Quotient methodology, we looked at the concept...
Effective content marketing is now critical to B2B marketers' success because useful content accelerates potential buyers along their journey. That usefulness is predicated on the content being...
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...
Insights Into Building Battle Cards That Help Sales Reps Win Deals
Sales enablement professionals are increasingly stepping up to fix the massive inventories of battle cards at their companies that provide inconsistent value to sales reps. These battle cards...
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has forced technology companies to re-examine and re-imagine innovation. Tech companies were used to treating everything beyond invention as someone else's problem; SaaS...
Over the past ten years, S.G&A costs have grown at a higher rate than revenues that have contributed to margin erosion. While 2010 saw a reversal in both trends, Forrester�s research with technology...
Most People Are Happy To Wait To Upgrade To 3D TV
At the opening of 2010, the world's largest TV manufacturers came to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) full of heady promises about the future of 3D TV. Despite the success of 3D films at the box...
Consumer product strategists designing product experiences for mobile phones and smartphones must decide on their development priorities across the mobile Web and applications. While some believe...
As Carriers Move To Embrace OTT, Enterprises Will Benefit
Over the top (OTT), the network-agnostic delivery of digital services, marks an important shift in the delivery and consumption of information and communications technology (ICT) services. OTT breaks...
