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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.
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Assessment Framework: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean transformation. This report is designed...

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Business leaders demand that IT leaders "do more with less" to free resources for innovation and growth. Applications professionals are turning to application portfolio management (APM) to meet those...

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This tool bases application assessments on customizable questions and weightings in four categories of metrics: business importance, application condition, EA condition, and vendor condition.
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In Champions Of Change: The App Dev & Delivery Role In 2020, we began to think about the business climate in the year 2020 and how it affects the application development and delivery role....
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Skills And Staffing: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the skills and staffing part of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs act...
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