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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.
From 2008 to 2010, 26.3 million more US online leisure travelers began using social media. Members of the group that travel eBusiness professionals need to pay attention to for their social commerce...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2011 of 4,524 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,524), there is 95% confidence that...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 5,998 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban cities/states of Mexico and Brazil and top urban cities/provinces of Argentina. In...
Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded in February and March 2010 of 42,792 US and Canadian households and individuals ages 18 and older. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size...
An In-Depth Look At Travel Social Fans, The Travelers Who Friend, Follow, Or Fan Travel Companies And Destinations On Social Media Sites
Travelers view social media as more than a way to stay in touch with people they know. Forrester data reveals that two in five US online leisure travelers have friended, followed, or become a fan of...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July and August 2012 of 6,008 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban areas/provinces of Argentina and top urban areas/states of Brazil and Mexico. In...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in June 2010 of 1,002 US individuals ages 18 to 88 with $1 million-plus in investable assets. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size...
Value Is Important To Online Sales Success In The Post-Recession Environment
There are nearly 6 million US online leisure travelers with a net worth of $1 million or more. For a group of millionaires, this audience is not necessarily as fancy as you might imagine it to be....
Best Practices: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
Forrester spoke to leaders at brands whose Customer Experience Index (CXi) scores went up appreciably in 2012. Our goal was to understand what drove those customer experience improvements. The...

A Technographics® Global Overview: Online Retail 2009
The Internet has evolved into an important retail channel, with millions of online consumers across the globe turning to it to make their purchases. As with many other online activities, Asian...
The Russian Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011, surveyed 2,000 respondents in across Russia. This survey is based on online adults ages 16 and older (who are members of the...
Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With 87 Web Sites Across 13 Industries
Forrester recently asked US online consumers to rate their satisfaction with Web site experiences at companies they've done business with across multiple industries. When the results were tallied,...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2010 of 7,728 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 7,728), there is 95% confidence...
The European Technographics® Retail, Customer Experience, And Travel Online Survey, Q3 2011, surveyed 13,063respondents in the seven markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain,...
The European Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2010, surveyed 25,535 respondents in the eight markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is...
Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded from May to July 2011 of 10,802 US households and individuals ages 18 and older. Fieldwork in Canada was delayed due to a national postal workers' strike and...
Forrester Research conducted an online survey in July 2011 of 7,085 consumers ages 18 and older in South Korea, Australia, Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing,...