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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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How Companies Succeed With Co-Creation

    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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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

    • Downloads: 45
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Interactive Attribution Vendors, Q2 2012

    Visual IQ, Adometry, And ClearSaleing Lead The Category

    In Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of interactive attribution vendors, we identified and analyzed the eight significant providers in this category — Adobe, Adometry, C3 Metrics,...

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    Charts & Figures:Verizon FiOS's iPad App Has 3.5 Stars

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of Online Consumers In Asia Pacific, 2012

    Asia Pacific Technographics®

    For the past seven years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. As in recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online and...

    • Downloads: 34
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Objectives Are The Key To Social Strategy

    Strategic Plan: The Social Marketing Playbook

    We're several years into the social marketing boom, but still many executives are going about social strategy backward: picking technologies like Facebook or Twitter first instead of focusing on what...

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    • Comments: 1
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    Report:Align Marketing Goals With Business Objectives

    Strategic Plan: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix optimization — the practice of using data-driven insights to strategically allocate and optimize marketing budgets across channels — is a powerful tool to help marketers...

    • Downloads: 335
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    Report:The Path To CPG Innovation Is Wide Open

    Why Open Innovation Is A Natural Fit For CPG Product Strategists

    Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are facing a daunting challenge: finding ways to differentiate their products among a sea of competing offerings. Incremental changes will not suffice; nor...

    • Downloads: 341
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    Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of Online Consumers In Latin America

    Latin American Consumer Technographics®

    Over the past couple of years, Latin America has risen on many global companies' priority lists of new markets to focus on and understand. Given the meteoric rise of social networks like orkut and...

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    Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

    Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

    • Downloads: 132
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Accelerate Your Social Maturity

    Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook

    Customers and employees are becoming increasingly empowered by social technologies, dramatically changing the way they communicate and collaborate. To succeed in this new world, companies must make...

    • Downloads: 1942
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    Report:Exploring The Social Technographics® Ladder: Creators

    North American Consumer Technographics®

    Creators sit at the top of Forrester's Social Technographics ladder®: They are a group of highly active online consumers who write blogs and articles, upload self-created video and music, post...

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    Report:Updated Q1 2012: Use Social Media To Boost Your TV Audience

    Social media is changing the way audiences engage with TV. Led by Generation X and Generation Y, audiences are increasingly multitasking on digital devices while watching TV — and sharing what...

    • Downloads: 520
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    Report:Drive Product Innovation To Mature Your Mobile Strategy

    Mobility is at the core of global digital disruption trends, and product strategists are best positioned to anticipate how smartphones open up new opportunities for product and service innovation. To...

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    Survey:North American Technographics® Brand Compass Survey, Q1 2013

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,575 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,575), there is 95% confidence...

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:How To Exploit The Database Of Affinity

      And Why Google, Not Facebook, Will Dominate Affinity Marketing

      Every day, huge numbers of people tell us what they like by voting for things, talking about things, reviewing things, and engaging in other online social interactions. All these behaviors add up to...

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      Report:Align Co-Creation Participants With The Right Engagements

      Road Map: The Open Innovation Playbook

      Co-creation is a key open innovation tool because it helps product strategy professionals create products that meet customers' needs. In order to pursue co-creation, product strategists must have a...

      • Downloads: 535
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:A Systematic Approach to Open Innovation Strategy

      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...

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      Report:Emerging Touchpoints Require A Marketing Mind Shift

      Vision: The Emerging Touchpoints For Marketing Playbook

      Emerging technologies — from smart objects and wearables to behind-the-scenes taxonomy tools — radically change how your customers think, act, and relate to others. Marketers who try to...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Western European Social Media Marketing Forecast, 2012 To 2017

      Growth Slows But Remains Strong Despite Legislative Uncertainty

      Social media marketing spending in the European Union (EU) will rise over the next five years, boosted by increasing numbers of addressable devices; consumers' willingness to use them; continued...

      • Downloads: 138
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Global Social Media Adoption In 2011

      A Review Of Forrester's Social Technographics® Data From Around The World

      Social media has gone global: The majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metropolitan Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. But usage patterns vary widely by country and...

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      Report:Navigate The Co-Creation Vendor Landscape

      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...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:US Online Hispanics: A Demographic Overview

      North American Technographics®

      This demographic overview highlights the unique behaviors and attitudes that characterize US online Hispanics compared with their non-Hispanic peers. US online Hispanics lead the way in mobile device...

      • Downloads: 68
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

      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...

      • Downloads: 532
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Win The Social Marketing Measurement Game

      Performance Management: The Social Marketing Playbook

      You've no doubt heard the question: "How do we know that social marketing drives sales?" But just as not all TV spots or billboards are intended to drive direct response, not every social marketing...

      • Downloads: 76
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      Report:Tap Into Social Media's Unexpected Global Hotspots

      Global Social Media Adoption In 2011 And What Interactive Marketers Should Do About It

      It's no secret that the groundswell has gone global: Internet users all over the planet have embraced social media. But there are strong differences from country to country in how people use social...

      • Downloads: 286
      • Comments: 1
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