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: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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    Report:Game On: Education Product Strategists Embrace Gamification

    Classroom Technology Enables New Product Innovation

    "Gamification" is a hot topic in product strategy, especially in US K-12 education. Product strategists in education are helping their customers achieve teaching and learning goals by developing...

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    Report:Forrester Research Online Access Forecast -- Broadband, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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    Forecasts broadband households by platform (DSL, cable, fiber, satellite, and other) as well as broadband users. Includes number of broadband households with bundled service...

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    Charts & Figures:Tablets Are Primarily Home-Use Devices

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    Report:Forrester Research World Tablet Adoption Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global)

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    Global sales and installed base for tablet devices in 53 countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...

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    Report:Forrester Research Search Engine Marketing Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (Western Europe)

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    Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...

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      Report:Forrester Research eReader Adoption Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (US)

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      Dedicated eReader device unit sales, users by demography, and installed base, with eBook and physical book spending. Includes historical data going back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.

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      Report:Global PC And Broadband Penetration

      A Technographics® Global Overview Document

      The global online population has more than doubled since 2005, but not all countries have reached saturated levels of online penetration. While the majority of consumers in the US, Europe, and...

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      Report:Forrester Research Tablet And eReader Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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      Sales and installed base for tablet and eReader devices as well as book market spending. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...

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      Report:Push Traditional Budgets Online In Emerging Markets

      Interactive Marketing Is The Best Way To Reach Attractive Consumers In The BRICs And Beyond

      Interactive marketing often takes a back seat in emerging markets, a victim of the low online penetration in these countries and of local marketing teams who lack experience with interactive tools....

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      Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, US

      North American Consumer Technographics®

      This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 1), Q2 2012 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...

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      • Comments: 3
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      Report:Forrester Research World eReader And eBook Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global)

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      Global sales and installed base of eReader devices in 53 countries. Also includes total book (physical and digital) and eBook spending for each country. Includes historical data back to 2010 plus a...

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      Report:Forrester Research Pay TV Forecast, 2011 To 2016 (US)

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      TV households by subscription service and digital TV households with DVR households by service. Includes historical data going back to 2000 plus a five-year forecast.

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      Report:Forrester Research Mobile Adoption And Sales Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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      Total mobile subscribers and subscriptions including prepaid subscriptions. Installed base and sales of mobile handsets segmented by speed (2.5G, 3G, and 4G/LTE) and feature set (basic devices,...

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      Report:US Young Professionals: A Demographic Overview

      North American Technographics®

      In this demographic overview, we take a look at US young professionals — an ambitious group that seems to embody the "work hard, play hard" lifestyle. Forrester defines young professionals as...

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      Report:What QWERTY Can Teach You About Product Strategy

      Path Dependence Matters, But Digital Disruption Matters More

      Product strategists looking to the past to guide future decisions often learn the wrong lessons about history. They point to the QWERTY keyboard or the success of Blu-ray to show that path dependence...

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      Report:Forrester Research World Online Population Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global)

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      The world online population forecast estimates the number of individuals with online access and includes total population and Internet penetration by region and...

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      Report:Fitness Wearables — Many Products, Few Customers

      Product Strategists Must Broaden Wearables' Appeal Beyond Fitness

      Wearable devices are part of the next wave of growth and innovation in personal computing, a phenomenon we call "smart body, smart world." Wearables could target any use case, from gaming to...

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      • Comments: 1
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      Report:The Tablet-TV Connection

      Tablets and TVs are big business: Forrester forecasts that 112.5 million US consumers will own a tablet by 2016, and tablets are disrupting several multibillion-dollar industries related to TV,...

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      Survey:North American Technographics® Telecom And Devices Online Survey, Q4 2012 (Canada)

      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%...

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        Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, Europe

        European Consumer Technographics®

        This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012. It provides an overview of European consumers' Internet and consumer technology behaviors....

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        Report:Forrester Research Connected Devices Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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        Adoption and ownership of game console devices, Blu-ray Disc players, and HDTVs among US households. Includes unit sales and installed base of: 1) game consoles (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, etc.) by...

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        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...

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        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...

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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...

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        Report:Microsoft's Shrinking Window For Tablets

        Windows 8 Shows Promise, But Its Fifth-Mover Product Strategy Is Late

        Microsoft faces challenges in the tablet market due to its late entry. While Windows 8 looks like a promising product for tablet computing, its release won't come until sometime next year. Though...

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