Kevin Acker

Kevin Acker is an experienced international consultant in the fields of corporate development, strategy, planning and product development. His specialty lies in high-level strategic thinking, in negotiating complex transactions, and in scoping and developing high-impact new products and services.

For the past four years, Kevin Acker has used these skills while serving as Senior Director, Product Development and Innovation for the CORPORATE EXECUTIVE BOARD, a Washington, D.C., firm that provides best-practices research, decision support services and executive education to corporate executives.

Kevin Acker’s responsibilities at Corporate Executive Board include leading product development and quantitative research for the firm’s information technology practice. While there, he has created a number of key products and services, including: an innovative benchmarking service focused on IT budget and spending; the IT Practice Platinum and Gold Portals, offering value-added services to top-tier clients; an online service to facilitate vendor-related networking conversations among clients; and a survey-based diagnostic that measures alignment between IT strategy and business needs.

Kevin Acker also spearheaded several quantitative research projects at Corporate Executive Board. Chief among them was a study that tackled the contentious question of whether excellence in the IT function impacts overall corporate performance and a study that utilized an innovative behavioral model to determine how best to increase secure behavior among end-users.

Kevin Acker worked as an Independent Consultant from ’01 to ’03. During that time, he conducted strategy, finance and organizational consulting projects. One project involved a comprehensive strategy review and restructuring of the Australian operations of an electronic security and cash-in-transit service firm. Kevin Acker analyzed profitability by customer size and industry, and then redesigned sales and marketing to address the most attractive market segments.




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