PIE FOR IT CONSULTING FIRMS
Deliver client value
PAIN. Your consulting firm's margins shrink when clients don’t rehire. You’re stuck hunting for new business. Why? Clients don’t see enough project value.
SOLUTION. Use Pie to land and expand accounts with better planning and execution. Your end project result then helps you become your clients’ go-to consultancy. This improves their business and it lowers your cost of sales.
Close new client deals.
Competing with big firms like Deloitte and Accenture is tough. How do you stand out at the pitch table?
Close more deals by showcasing your proven methods in Pie, backed by client success stories. Your visual frameworks demonstrate exactly how your firm delivers value that rivals can’t match.
Watch the above Consulting Testimonial video to learn how firms use Pie to land more client deals.
Engage your client.
Collaborating with clients is hard without transparency. It can create trust gaps and friction. PowerPoint slides and old-school project tools often leave clients feeling disconnected.
Pie solves this by connecting your consultants with client teams and sponsors, bringing full visibility and real-time collaboration to everyone. Your project managers can share progress transparently with all stakeholders.
Build repeatable frameworks.
Common problems with IT engagements is that consulting firms lack tools to capture and scale flexible best practices and vendors keep project plans hidden.
Pie’s “Recipe” with AI functions is the solution to help you define your blueprints, frameworks, and processes that are flexible for each vendor system and client type. Your project leads can then launch new project plans directly from these recipes. This saves time and ensures consistency. Bake in ongoing process improvement. And it’s all big-time scalable.
All-in-1 client workspaces.
A problem for consulting firms is that other project and portfolio tools require different accounts for different client organizations and workspaces. There’s no way to review portfolios across clients.
Pie solves this with a built-in architecture that allows you to have one log in and one portfolio dashboard to view progress across all client engagements whether or not they have independent Pie accounts. You can establish your key clients as separate workspaces within your Pie org. Or you can have visibility and oversight to your client’s own Pie accounts (with their permissions of course). All with one login.
View portfolios for oversight.
Existing project tools or spreadsheets focus on tasks. They’re fine for small projects, but fall short when your firm manages multiple complex client engagements at once.
Pie makes complex programs easy to plan, execute, and monitor with multi-layered ‘stacked’ projects. The portfolio view gives you real-time oversight across projects, so you can spot risks early, act fast, and keep every client engagement on track.
Manage engagement billings.
Are your project billings clearly forecasted? Without this insight, you risk eroding your engagement profits.
Pie solves this with a project budget section that includes billings data and a Billings Burn-Up Chart. This gives you real-time projections based on the team’s billable hours, entered at task or project level so you always know where profitability stands.
