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.

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    Report:Four Steps To Tackle The Shift To The Customer Life Cycle

    Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

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    Report:Investing In Tech Marketing, 2011

    Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations

    The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...

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    Report:Google Wallet Is Not About Mobile Payments

    Google's statement that mobile payments are just getting started is correct. Its announcement on May 26, 2011, was another early salvo in what will be a long and hard-fought battle to change...

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    Charts & Figures:The Forrester Marketing Flywheel

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    Report:Emerging Markets Overview: Russia

    A Global Consumer Technographics® Report

    Based on sheer geographical size, Russia is the largest country in the world. It spans nine time zones, represents a diverse ethnic population, and is on track to be one of the five largest economies...

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    Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016 (US)

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    Interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's IM spending is further broken into the various components of IM: display, paid search, SEO, email, and mobile advertising.

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    Report:Get Control Of Financial Services Social Marketing

    Choose A Social Marketing Management Vendor Focused On The Specific Needs Of The Financial Industry

    Clearer compliance regulations are making financial services (FS) marketers more confident about entering the social channel and growing their existing presences — but the burden remains on...

    • Downloads: 464
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    Report:"Smart Body, Smart World" For Marketers

    Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices

    Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

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    Client Inquiry:Google Wallet And Banking Product Strategy

    What opportunity does Google Wallet present to product strategists at banks?

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      Report:Mobile Payments Enter A Disruptive Phase

      The pace of innovation in mobile payments is accelerating. 2011 is finally the year when Near Field Communication (NFC) will reach the hands of millions of consumers, while initiatives in the digital...

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      Tool:B2B Financial Services Marketers Favor Traditional Publishers

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      Client Inquiry:The Future Of Phone Numbers

      When will we see mobile and home telephone numbers (E.164 numbers) replaced by addresses, such as a SIP address? The UK Payments Council is proposing to use a mobile number as a unique identifier in...

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        Tool:PNC Bank Customers Are The Most Engaged With Several Key Social Behaviors

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        Report:Social Media Marketing For Financial Services

        How To Navigate The Regulatory Minefield And Build Effective Social Media Programs

        Financial services firms are beginning to adopt social technologies: In fact, we found that 79% of companies in the industry have some social media presence. But, held back by regulatory concerns and...

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        Report:ForecastView — An Overview Of Our Global Forecasts

        Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...

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        Report:Financial Services B2B Interactive Marketing Trends

        Caution continues to dominate business-to-business (B2B) financial services interactive marketing strategies as budget squeezes, regulatory concerns, and a lack of digital experience impede...

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        Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

        Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

        Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

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        Report:The Splinternet Engagement Index

        Analyzing Your Customers' Engagement Across Touchpoints

        The splinternet — the fragmented world of incompatible web, social, video, and mobile touchpoints — is where your customers live now. They want to reach you in more touchpoints, but you...

        • Downloads: 625
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        Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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        Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...

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        Tool:B2B Financial Services Marketers Face Limited Budgets In 2010

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        Report:Global Mobile And Online Bankers

        Many financial services firms have been moving transactions out of the branch and into more cost-effective channels in the past few years. The introduction of Internet banking services has gotten...

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        Report:2012 Mobile Trends For CPS Professionals

        Talk of "the year of mobile" is not only passé but also irrelevant. The disruptive forces of mobile arrived more than two years ago and will fundamentally change businesses in the decades to...

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        Report:Compare Your Campaigns To 70 Others

        Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook

        This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

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        Report:Building Successful B2B Financial Services Social Marketing Programs

        Faced with fragmented customer bases and unclear regulatory requirements, business-to-business (B2B) financial services marketers have traditionally shied away from launching social marketing...

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        Report:NFC: What Lies Beyond Contactless Payments

        How NFC Will Enable New Product Experiences By Bridging The Physical And Digital Worlds

        Forrester estimates that close to 100 million Near Field Communication (NFC) devices will ship in 2012. As it finally moves past the chicken-or-egg stalemate of the past five years, the contactless...

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