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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.
Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations
Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

A few years ago, Forrester defined the value of an email address as:Email subscriber value = (Potential revenue X time remaining for subscriber engagement) – cost to reach.But times have changed. ...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2012 of 4,518 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,518), there is 95% confidence that...

Processes: The Open Innovation Playbook
Co-creation, and social co-creation in particular, will blossom in 2012. Although the practice of co-creation remains relatively immature, product strategists from companies across a wide range of...

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Tools And Technology: The Open Innovation Playbook
Co-creation will become a key business tool for product strategy professionals as they strive to incorporate it into their open innovation strategiesin order to develop better products, services, and...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September 2012 of 5,485 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,485), there is 95%...
New Consumer Viewing Behaviors Force The Industry Into A New Future
Since its invention, TV has beaten back many challenges to retain its place as the king of the media plan. That won't change anytime soon, but the way advertisers plan and buy their campaigns will....
Revolutionize Products Through Open Innovation
Product innovation isn't just a nice-to-have; it's a must-have, particularly in light of the rapid changes taking place at the intersection of technology and consumer behavior. Product strategists...
Benchmarks: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Few marketers have a structured approach to optimizing their marketing mix, often missing the opportunity to deliver better results with the same level of investment or to effectively reallocate...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Includes audience, buyers, and revenues for online content, including news, business and finance, sports, games, video, and music for the US. Includes historical data going back to 2009...
Mint.com wanted to increase traffic from new and returning users to its site as well as deepen engagement and exposure to monetized elements. By employing a suite of game mechanics — including...
Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers
Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...
We are using Jive for a closed client community and are looking at various mobile options like developing a mobile app for the community to acccess content or a full mobile site. If you have done...
See Through The Myths, And Tap Games As A Medium For Marketing
Are you looking to deliver interactive, integrated marketing messages and advertising to reach an attractive, broad base of users in a medium where emotional response is predictable and guaranteed?...

Using Facebook Login To Your Advantage
This report, originally written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, contains important insight and recommendations for interactive marketing professionals as well. Since the...

How Interactive Marketers Must Make Digital Messaging More Engaging
As a marketer you want to be timely and relevant when you send a message and basic triggered messaging has addressed one side of this equation — timeliness — for many marketers. But when...
This report is designed to give B2B marketing professionals an introduction to the online community manager role as well as an overview of the general challenges facing an individual in this...

Strategic Plan: The Open Innovation Playbook
Despite the fact that economists, consultants, and business experts have been advocating for open innovation for more than a decade, product strategists indicate that most firms continue to struggle...

Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

What are some best practice examples of integrating television with social media — not just in content/programming terms, but also in advertising terms?
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Mobile phones are an integral part of day-to-day life for most Chinese consumers. But not everyone uses their phone in the same way nor is similarly attached to their phone. Forrester's analysis of...
Graduate From Email To Integrated Messaging
The rules for how to best message your users are changing. Now your customers check their email, text messages, and social media posts in parallel. Even trickier: People tap their inboxes from...
Strategic Plan: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
The customer life cycle provides a better explanation of modern marketing than does the traditional marketing funnel, but most marketers have not yet moved their organizations to the customer life...