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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  • Customer Intelligence Strategy and Process
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  • Customer Insights
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    Report:Measure The Strength Of The Marketing Technology Stack

    Performance Management: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    The evolution from channel-specific to cross-channel campaigns affords firms the opportunity to improve relevance and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. The processes of measuring and...

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    Report:Building Data Stewardship Is A New Customer Intelligence Imperative

    Organization: The Personal Identity Management Playbook

    In anticipation of the increasing adoption of personal identity management (PIDM) tools and services, customer intelligence (CI) leaders will be held increasingly accountable for their organizations'...

    • Downloads: 203
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    Report:Base Your Plan For Intelligent Loyalty On Maturity

    Strategic Plan: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Loyalty programs that attempt to implement a cookie-cutter strategy and ignore customer insights typically struggle and usually lack meaningful results. Organizations seeking to build a program that...

    • Downloads: 178
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Culture, Data, And Technology Are Key Ingredients For Measurement Success

    Strategic Plan: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    A key piece in cross-channel attribution is developing a strategy that outlines where the organization needs to progress to achieve attribution nirvana. To be successful at cross-channel attribution,...

    • Downloads: 185
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    Report:Take A Startup Approach To Develop Customer Relationships

    Organization: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    Customers, empowered by always connected digital devices, can engage with brands at any time, from any place, and at any point within the customer life cycle. To respond with relevance in real time,...

    • Downloads: 476
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:CI Professionals: Plan For The Future Of Cross-Channel Marketing

    The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

    • Downloads: 900
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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Online Testing Platforms, Q1 2013

    How Seven Vendors Are Addressing The Evolution Of Online Testing

    In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of online testing platform vendors, we identified the seven most significant providers — Adobe, Autonomy, Maxymiser, Monetate, Optimizely, SiteSpect, and...

    • Downloads: 490
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:How Real-Time Analytics Enables Digital Intelligence

    Real-Time Analysis Provides Visibility Into Critical Situations

    Most organizations have invested in the tools and skills to track website activity, evaluate digital marketing campaigns, and conduct in-depth analysis of digital channels. With the increasing...

    • Downloads: 441
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    Report:TechRadar™ For Customer Intelligence Professionals: Customer Loyalty Programs, Q1 2013

    Business Case: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Loyalty technologies play a central role in the execution and differentiation of customer loyalty programs and, more specifically, in driving consumer participation in a program across channels...

    • Downloads: 437
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    Report:Navigating The Future Of Customer Intelligence

    Customer intelligence is in the throes of significant change brought about by two primary drivers: 1) the disruption caused by the massive shifts in consumer behavior, and 2) organizations' growing...

    • Downloads: 341
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    Report:Five Ways To Mobilize Your Loyalty Program In 2013

    Mobile Channels Offer Rich Opportunities For Rewards And Engagement

    Mobile continues to grow in importance for reaching and engaging empowered consumers and loyalty program members. From a data perspective, it opens up new streams of information that provide better...

    • Downloads: 316
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    Report:Rethink Existing Approaches To Embed Cross-Channel Attribution

    Processes: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    Establishing a cross-channel attribution measurement framework requires a tremendous amount of due diligence, planning, and process across the organization. In this report of the cross-channel...

    • Downloads: 217
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    Report:Customer Engagement Agency Progress Reflects Industry Maturity

    During our recent customer engagement agency (CEA) Forrester Wave™, we surveyed more than 100 CEA clients to understand their choice of vendors and the quality of the relationships. We found...

    • Downloads: 148
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Two Approaches For Socializing Your Loyalty Program

    Direct Integration With Social Channels Creates The Richest Engagement And Data Opportunities

    Across the globe, more and more consumers are interacting socially than ever before. When it comes to loyalty, social channels provide an opportunity for brands to engage with members beyond the...

    • Downloads: 154
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    Report:Determine The Best Attribution Provider Based On Long-Term Measurement Needs

    Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    Customer intelligence (CI) professionals increasingly look to attribution experts for guidance and tools to help calculate true channel and customer purchase path. While there is a broad array of...

    • Downloads: 131
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Prepare For A World Of Consumer-Managed Data

    Executive Overview: The Personal Identity Management Playbook

    Amid the talk of big data and personal clouds, another important trend is emerging: Consumers are increasingly aware of the data they create as they move about the Web and engage with businesses and...

    • Downloads: 238
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Customer Analytics Turns Data Into Intelligence

    Executive Overview: The Customer Analytics Playbook

    A step change in the availability of customer data is providing firms with their biggest opportunity yet to understand their customers. However customer analytics practitioners have been shaken from...

    • Downloads: 409
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    Report:The Consumerization Of Customer Analytics

    Landscape: The Customer Analytics Playbook

    The analytics conversation is now front and center for marketers, thanks to the real estate that big data enjoys in mainstream media. As a result of this buzz, customer analytics practitioners who...

    • Downloads: 289
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Design A Social Intelligence Function

    Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions requires the right combination of a clear objective, business planning, technology, and, most importantly, people to do the...

    • Downloads: 601
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    Report:The Online Marketing Suite Evolves

    In the age of the customer, the requirements for the online marketing suite have evolved and become even more acute. Customer expectations are greater than ever, and business demands more marketing...

    • Downloads: 290
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    Report:Move Beyond Campaigns To Tap Hidden Customer Potential

    Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve...

    • Downloads: 143
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    Report:Consumer Attitudes Toward Loyalty Programs Deteriorate

    Landscape: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

    Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes toward...

    • Downloads: 847
 
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