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The Growth Engine (eBook)

A Guide to Building a World-Class Business Development Function in Professional Services
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2025
323 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-394-27789-6 (ISBN)

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The Growth Engine - Walt Shill, Andi Baldwin, Erika Flowers, Jacob Parks
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Your guide to business development maturation in the professional services sector

The Growth Engine describes the main challenge professional services firms face as they grow and shows how to develop a scalable business development effort, covering everything from CRM systems and metrics around utilization, to service development and expansion, to account planning and cross-selling, to winning new clients, to team structure and roles, and to performance management.

This book is supported by extensive interviews with rainmakers in professional services firms including marketing, law, consulting, financial advisory, and IT advisory companies. Interviewees include senior executives at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Accenture, IBM, AWS, KPMG, Deloitte, Publicis, and Omnicom, as well as a number of Am Law 100 firms. Some of the concepts covered in this book include:

  • Identifying buyers, niching services to create awareness and strengthen brand, and using talent to leverage consultants' time and amplify their reach
  • Developing new services, aligning sales with marketing, and using tools, processes, and metrics to drive accountability and growth
  • Training talent, measuring and managing business development performance, and incentivizing and compensating key roles

The Growth Engine is an essential read for all founders, executives, chief growth officers, marketing leaders and rainmakers in professional services seeking proven strategies to grow, steadily, sustainably and profitably.



WALT SHILL had an illustrious career as a partner and growth leader in professional services, including McKinsey, Accenture, and ERM. He is a member of PIE's advisory board and the author of Friday Thoughts, a business blog focused on professional services.

ANDI BALDWIN is the CEO of PIE. She is responsible for setting the firm's growth strategy and ensuring PIE is delivering exceptional work to its premier client base.

ERIKA FLOWERS is PIE's Chief Client Officer, where she leads a team of consultants who deliver business development and client engagement programs for PIE's accounts including AWS, KPMG, IBM, Capgemini, BCG, and other large professional services firms.

JACOB PARKS is the President of PIE. He headed the research team on How Clients Buy, co-authored Never Say Sell, and has facilitated executive roundtable discussions on behalf of CFOs and COOs representing the largest companies across the globe.


Your guide to business development maturation in the professional services sector The Growth Engine describes the main challenge professional services firms face as they grow and shows how to develop a scalable business development effort, covering everything from CRM systems and metrics around utilization, to service development and expansion, to account planning and cross-selling, to winning new clients, to team structure and roles, and to performance management. This book is supported by extensive interviews with rainmakers in professional services firms including marketing, law, consulting, financial advisory, and IT advisory companies. Interviewees include senior executives at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Accenture, IBM, AWS, KPMG, Deloitte, Publicis, and Omnicom, as well as a number of Am Law 100 firms. Some of the concepts covered in this book include: Identifying buyers, niching services to create awareness and strengthen brand, and using talent to leverage consultants' time and amplify their reach Developing new services, aligning sales with marketing, and using tools, processes, and metrics to drive accountability and growth Training talent, measuring and managing business development performance, and incentivizing and compensating key roles The Growth Engine is an essential read for all founders, executives, chief growth officers, marketing leaders and rainmakers in professional services seeking proven strategies to grow, steadily, sustainably and profitably.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.8.2025
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Schlagworte am law • Business Development • Business Growth • chief growth officers • Consulting firm • consulting revenue • consulting sales • consulting sponsorship • consulting thought leadership • grow firm • growth key roles • win rates consulting
ISBN-10 1-394-27789-X / 139427789X
ISBN-13 978-1-394-27789-6 / 9781394277896
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