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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.
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...

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'...

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...
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,...

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,...
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...

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...
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...

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...