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The growth engine

Name: The growth engine
Author: Walt Shill

Walt Shill

28 August 2025

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Book Synopsis

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.

About The Author

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.

Product Details

ISBN: 9781394277872
Format: Hardback
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (28 August 2025)
Number of Pages: 320
Weight: 521.64 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 231.1 x 157.5 x 27.9 mm
Categories:: Business and Management