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:Planning A Co-Creation Workshop? Sweat The Details

    Best Practices For Including Customers, Employees, And Partners In Customer Experience Design

    Co-creation — the practice of involving people from across the customer experience ecosystem in the experience design process — is a valuable and versatile methodology, but it usually...

    • Downloads: 180
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    Report:The Customer Experience Ecosystem

    Vision: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

    Even companies that make customer experience a strategic priority struggle to implement major long-lasting improvements. That's because they fail to connect behind-the-scenes activities to customer...

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    Report:2012 Customer Experience Predictions

    What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead

    While consumer technology adoption was the impetus for many customer experience efforts in 2011, an increasingly competitive industry landscape, the ever-increasing power of consumers, and a slippery...

    • Downloads: 1812
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    Charts & Figures:Virgin Media Staff And Customers Generate Experience Improvement Ideas Together

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    Report:Executive Q&A: Customer Experience Co-Creation

    Despite professed customer centricity, many firms don't think to involve customers, employees, or key delivery partners in the experience design process. This oversight costs firms precious time and...

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    Report:How To Map Your Customer Experience Ecosystem

    Assessment: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

    Customer interactions are shaped by a complex set of interdependencies that Forrester calls the customer experience ecosystem. In order to make significant and long-lasting customer experience...

    • Downloads: 535
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    Report:Executive Q&A: Customer Experience Design

    The right customer interactions, implemented the right way, don't just happen. Instead, they must be actively designed. This requires learning — and then sticking to — the steps in a...

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    Report:2013 Customer Experience Predictions

    What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead

    Over the past two years, consumer technology adoption and market forces have catapulted the field of customer experience into strategic stature. But it will be years before customer experience is...

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    Report:Why Customer Experience, Why Now?

    Business Case: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

    This report is an update to "Why Customer Experience? Why Now?" originally published on October 4, 2011. We've entered the age of the customer — an era where a focus on customers matters more...

    • Downloads: 2745
 
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