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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.
Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module
One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...

Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, June 2011
To understand more about this changing PC landscape and what it means for consumers’ expectations in the market, we tapped into our qualitative Technographics® community. During a...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, August 2011
Sixty-five percent of US online consumers report being very concerned about the recording and collection of their personal details by websites, and more than 60% are worried about personal...
A Global Consumer Technographics® Report
Based on sheer geographical size, Russia is the largest country in the world. It spans nine time zones, represents a diverse ethnic population, and is on track to be one of the five largest economies...
North American Technographics®
Moms (defined here as US online women ages 18 to 50 who are parents of a child younger than 18 living with them) are much like their non-mom counterparts when it comes to their basic demographics,...
The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Luxury goods are very popular in China; they are bought by men and women of all ages and across all income levels. Compared with non-luxury goods buyers, Chinese luxury goods buyers tend to have...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, October 2011
About one in 10 US consumers regularly share information about a product they are either planning to buy or have recently bought. But why, where, and when? Forrester conducted a qualitative study...
Major Changes Are In Store For The Market Research Profession
Until a couple of years ago, the market research department was the only department that proactively collected data from customers and prospects and broadcast it into the organization, but now data...
AYA4 Community Helps Support A More Patient-Centered Experience
The Dutch Radboud Academic Medical Center recognized a need to strengthen its relationships and better meet the needs of its adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology patients. Based on the results...

Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, July 2011
The average US consumer reports spending an equal amount of time online as she does watching TV. This data point tells a very important story: In consumers’ minds, their time spent with offline...
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...
Forrester's research shows that firms that seek to place the customer at the core of their operations closely align their market insights and customer intelligence functions and in time have them...
North American Consumer Technographics®
Conversationalists are the highly active individuals that post updates and/or update their status on social networking sites at least weekly. Members of this group not only express their opinion on a...
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...
Is there a uniform European market for information and communications technology (ICT) solutions? Many organizations approach Europe as one region, often combined with the Middle East and Africa (the...
The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...
North American Consumer Technographics®
Online affluent consumers in North America, defined as individuals with at least $1 million in investable assets, show unique behaviors with regards to their finances. Although Seniors overall have...
A Technographics® Document
For many companies, China offers both an opportunity and a threat. Its size, its history, its political situation, and the attitudes of its consumers present a series of challenges for companies...

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...
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...
Market Insights Needs To Invest In Richer Data, Technology, And Skills To Prepare For The Future
The market insights industry is at a crossroads. Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change is happening much more quickly and having a bigger impact on...
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...

Disruption is coming — is your company ready? Organizations need to realize that their customers want things faster, better, cheaper, and with a higher degree of service, and technology makes...
Market Insights Professionals' Agenda Topics For 2012 Include Emerging Methods, Insights Delivery, And Collaboration
The market research profession has gone through significant change in the past few years, and Forrester predicts that more is yet to come. In fact, market insights professionals will face some...