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For everyone, from day one.

One flexible solution for every wave of change. See how Wave, McKinsey’s enterprise program management platform, can help your organization build collective momentum – from shaping and pressure-testing initiatives to implementing them, measuring impact, and building capabilities – to drive lasting change, from day one.

How Wave by McKinsey works

IDEATE

Turn ambition into initiatives.

Generate and shape transformation initiatives aligned with business priorities, using embedded McKinsey intelligence and proprietary data to identify opportunities for impact.

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VALIDATE

Pressure-test what will create value.

Benchmark initiatives and targets against proprietary McKinsey data and insights. AI and predictive analytics help teams challenge assumptions, raise ambition, and identify potential risks to value delivery before they materialize.

IMPLEMENT

Turn initiatives into action.

Translate initiatives into clear milestones, owners, workflows, and governance. Flexible configuration – accelerated by Wave’s AI – helps teams build the workflows they need and maintain shared views of what needs to happen, when, and by whom.

MEASURE

Know what’s working and what’s at risk.

Track financial and nonfinancial impact in one place, with real-time dashboards that give teams and leaders a shared view of progress. Embedded McKinsey intelligence – combining AI and a team of 300+ professionals globally – helps surface emerging risks, identify opportunities, and focus attention where intervention can protect value.

SUSTAIN

Build capability with every wave of change.

Continuous change demands new capabilities. Wave embeds AI-powered change coaching, shaped by McKinsey’s Ability to Execute methodology, directly into the flow of work. Personalized, just-in-time guidance helps teams build skills, reinforce accountability, and strengthen the ways of working required to sustain impact.

DEVELOP

Design with confidence to generate change

Wave comes ready with proven capabilities purpose-built for transformation and change programs. Wave App Studio extends that foundation with secure, AI-accelerated development of tailored apps and capabilities – making it faster to configure Wave for your organization, industry, and program, and to adapt as your needs evolve.

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Intelligence embedded in the flow of work

AI-assisted coaching

Build capability in the moment. Shaped by the latest research in behavioral science, Wave’s embedded capability-building embeds personalized, just-in-time training directly into the flow of work, when it's needed most.

Executive insights

Turn program data into decisions. Configurable executive views help leaders quickly assess performance, risks, and opportunities and generate steering committee-ready analyses, presentations, and talking points.

Risk analysis

See risk before value is lost. Predict potential value leakage and program delays at portfolio and initiative levels using proprietary data, insights, and benchmarks drawn from thousands of McKinsey transformations and change programs.

We move as one

Enabled by technology and supported by experts, Wave by McKinsey helps empower organizations from agriculture to automotive to create, structure, and sustain business impact. Whether tracking cost savings or CO2 emissions, Wave allows everyone to ideate, validate, execute, and follow the critical moving parts of any program. Our fast and flexible configuration — accelerated by AI — quickly builds confidence, capability, and adaptability across tidal shifts, seismic disruptors, and continuous ripples of improvement.

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