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:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

    Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

    This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization

    Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook

    Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

    • Downloads: 224
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    Report:Demand Pricing That Matches Business Value — The Radical Sourcing Trend For 2013

    Landscape: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

    This report describes the software pricing and licensing landscape and explains why it makes it so important for sourcing and vendor management executives to implement Forrester's strategic software...

    • Downloads: 315
  • For CIO Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Firms See A Variety Of As-A-Service Management Issues

    Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months

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    Report:Business Outcomes Are The Future Of Technology Contracts

    Driving Change In The Way You Buy Products And Services

    Digital capability — mobile, social, cloud, and data and analytics — disrupts business models and value streams, introduces new competitive threats, and comes with new demands for shorter...

    • Downloads: 99
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:SVM Activities, Roles, And Skills Are Evolving

    Skills And Staffing: The SVM Practice Playbook

    Many sourcing and vendor management organizations (SVMOs) are delivering effectively against their core mandate today, despite resource constraints. However, most SVM professionals are mapping their...

    • Downloads: 184
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    Report:Get Better Software Deals By Aligning Your Sourcing Strategy And Commercial Approach

    Executive Overview: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

    This report outlines how sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives can implement Forrester's strategic software sourcing model. Our research has shown us that transactional procurement is...

    • Downloads: 224
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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Tracking The Renegade Technology Buyer

    Understanding The What And Why Of Business Executives' Spending On Technology

    After nearly a decade in hibernation, the business buyer has re-emerged as a major spender and force in IT spending. To better understand the return of tech spending outside the formal IT budget and...

    • Downloads: 129
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    Report:New Dynamics Shape IT Services Spending

    Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months

    The IT services industry is in the middle of a fundamental transformation of who it sells to, what services it sells, and how it delivers those services. Upstart vendors specializing in new...

    • Downloads: 362
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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:Asia Pacific Channels: Indian Tiger, Chinese Dragon

    Indian Partners Outpace Chinese

    China and India are two of the largest emerging markets with strong economic growth. China represents the third largest single country tech market by market size; India ranks 11th. Homogenous...

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    Report:Budgets And Priorities: Global Benchmark 2012

    Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

    CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

    • Downloads: 443
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  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:The Applications Outsourcing Market Hits The Crossroads

    The New Foundations For Innovation In A Maturing Industry

    As more IT organizations operate under the dueling mandates of delivering cost savings and innovation, suppliers of applications outsourcing services are getting ready for the next phase of their...

    • Downloads: 294
  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:The Cloud Has Changed Channel Sourcing Dynamics For Software

    Which Channels Are Customers Sourcing From?

    In 2010, Forrester published a report on channel sweet spots to address how small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) source their software needs. Two years later, we're revisiting this topic to...

    • Downloads: 162
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    Report:Seeding The Cloud Channel

    Channel Partners' Plans And Needs For Business Model Transformation

    As technologies and tech decision-makers' needs evolve at a livelier pace, channel professionals need to consider channel partners' perceptions and investment plans and develop their own game plan to...

    • Downloads: 66
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