PIE® is an innovation framework which helps you launch viable, market-ready ideas.
Co-created by 126 change makers, catalysts, solvers, growth engineers, and visioneers, P.I.E.® is designed to bring you from problem to pitch deck in 90 days or less.
How P.I.E.® Works
A three-stage loop to help you launch better solutions, faster.
P.I.E.’s three-stage loop covers team formation, stakeholder engagement, and rapid prototyping to help you build viable solutions for real-world problems.
The Three Stages of the P.I.E.® Loop
What does the P.I.E.® method help with?
Project Leadership
Build a cross-functional agile team and learn to get things done.
Innovation
Understand your users’ problem and create solutions that delight them.
Entrepreneurship
Experiment with channels, customer segments and your value story to find a story that fits.
Project Leadership
This stage will guide you through building a functional, multidisciplinary team that balances scope, time, and value.
Step 1: Think Agile
Learn and apply agile project management principles, such as delivering your solutions early and often, and adapting your ideas as new information rolls in.
Step 2: Build Team
Learn about starting your team and improving its cohesiveness through the Form, Storm, Norm, and Perform development cycle.
Step 3: Define Needs
Identify the activities, partners, and resources required to make your project a success.
Step 4: Know Limits
Strike the right balance between scope, time, and cost through smart prioritization.
Step 5: Reflect & Grow
Evaluate your progress and areas for improvement; both as a team and as a leader.
Innovation
This stage guide you through engaging with stakeholders, defining your challenge, and rapidly prototyping ideas.
Step 1: Engage
Observe and interview your target users and understand the problem from their perspective.
Step 2: Synthesize
Synthesize your user research into a compelling challenge statement which gives insight and scope for the problem you’ll be working on.
Step 3: Ideate
Look for all possible solutions to your challenge statement with collaborative and individual techniques.
Step 4: Create
Converge on your best ideas, and create physical and digital prototypes for rapid testing.
Step 5: Evaluate
Observe how users interact with your prototypes and create testing experiences that mimic the real-world.
Entrepreneurship
This stage will take your solution to market, guiding you through on value
propositions, the customer lifecycle, and building performance indicators.
Step 1: Test Ideas
Identify risks with your idea, and implement a plan to test your solutions in advance.
Step 2: Create Value
Explore how your product fits with the market. Learn how to segment users and customers and identify key value propositions.
Step 3: Understand Customers
Learn about the various channels for reaching prospective customers, and develop a persona flow to map their journey.
Step 4: Markets and Revenue
Identify your market type and market sizes. Revenue strategies and pricing tactics are also considered.
Step 5: Measure & Optimize
Learn how to develop an internal culture of measuring, testing, and optimizing for success.
Download the P.I.E.® Book
Ready to start building?
Take a deep-dive into P.I.E.® with our free, 148-page guidebook. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or starting from scratch, The P.I.E.® Book provides an in-depth view of how to apply the P.I.E.® Framework.
