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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 Biometrics Enable Smart Computing Solutions
Biometrics is already a growing market today in a variety of applications. Smart Computing will help to fuel biometrics growth as smart applications call for a greater level of security and...
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This report provides a comprehensive background of the healthcare dynamics in China in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully. The report discusses the...
How One Healthcare Provider Improved The End User Experience Of 1,500 Physicians
In today's healthcare environment, physicians must access a wide array of IT applications to provide quality patient care. Because of the growing number of both on-premises and SaaS-based...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report
Tracking and managing personal health information — with technology or without — is not a mainstream consumer activity today. There are multiple reasons for this: Consumers lack...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in June 2010 of 4,665 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,665), there is 95% confidence that...
We would like to discuss the marketplace for off-the-shelf point-of-sale (POS) software that we can integrate. We are building a hospital management system, which must provide the capacity for...
Over the past seven years, transformational changes have swept through Medco — propelled by the visionary duo of David B. Snow, Jr., Medco chairman and CEO, and Kenneth Klepper, Medco president...
I have a question on the concierge medical space — premium healthcare that allows streamlined interaction with physicians. My client would like help in building its new system, and I'd like to...
Five Key Dynamics That Will Help You Capture The Opportunity For Your Organization
"Internet of Things" (IoT) solutions that machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies like RFID tags, GPS systems, and ZigBee sensors enable are gaining momentum as multiple forces align to drive adoption...

Today, healthcare remains a largely in-person proposition, but with the advancement of Internet-based videoconferencing technologies, the possibility of healthcare video visits is becoming a reality....
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,504 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,504), there is 95% confidence...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2011 of 4,793 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,793), there is 95% confidence that...
How Leading Hospital Systems Drive Change Inside And Outside Their Walls
Faced with regulatory reform, changing demographics, transparency initiatives, and competitive forces from within and outside of the industry, hospitals will have to innovate to provide...

Internet-based personal health records (PHRs) give consumers a place to store and maintain their personal health histories, access tools that help monitor and improve health, and increasingly connect...
This document provides a comprehensive background of the healthcare dynamics across the Australian marketplace in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully....
This document provides a comprehensive background of the healthcare IT dynamics in India in order to enable IT solution providers to address market opportunities more successfully. Furthermore, the...
Answering Hard Questions About Business, Process, And Technology Best Practices
Business process pros at health payers work at the intersection of business and technology, bringing process methodologies, business knowledge, and technology insights to business transformation...