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Accelerate strategic change
Wave aligns seamlessly with organizations’ unique governance structures and transformation priorities to execute strategic shifts and drive long-term change, including:
- Holistic transformation
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Project management
- New business building
- Revenue and margin improvement
- Mid-cap transformation
Holistic transformation
Wave for McKinsey Transformation is a customizable program management platform that empowers organizations to deliver unprecedented business impact. Combining gen AI technology, McKinsey’s proven expertise, and insights drawn from thousands of successful transformations, Wave supports robust initiative and milestone management, comprehensive financial and non-financial value tracking, top-down goal setting, automated workflows, and intuitive, purpose-built dashboards with real-time data. This integrated approach enables teams to maintain momentum, ensure accountability, and unlock the full potential of transformations.
Project management
Projects by Wave is a digital project management tool that fosters accountability and enhances organizational collaboration for measurable business results. This tool helps project managers plan, execute, and collaborate on complex portfolios through its unique activity tracking, interdependency capture, risk assessment, resource management, and dashboard capabilities. Using Projects by Wave means faster team member onboarding, repeatable processes, and speedier time to value.
Mergers and acquisitions
Wave for Merger Management provides a single, shared platform for organizations to monitor value creation by tracking master-planning activities and integration initiatives through a consistent, well-defined stage-gate process. With robust dependency mapping, risk management, and cross-assignment capabilities, Wave gives leaders full visibility into progress and potential bottlenecks. This integrated approach enables the end-to-end orchestration of merger efforts, helping teams manage complexity, maintain accountability, and accelerate the realization of expected synergies.
Sustainability
Wave for Sustainability enables transformation stakeholders—from managers to the C-suite—to track ESG initiatives, derive actionable insights on program performance, and measure meaningful progress against sustainability targets. The platform supports holistic decision-making on a company’s green strategic goals and objectives.
Digital transformations
Wave is a one-stop solution for managing digital-led transformations using agile methodology. It enables tribe-based business cases, quarterly squad delivery, iterative initiative planning, and impact tracking designed to support an agile operating model. With OKRs, customized dashboards, and API integration with tools like Jira and Azure DevOps that eliminate the risk of dual data entry, Wave by McKinsey links digital transformation programs to measurable and sustained business impact.
Procurement
Wave for Procurement, in conjunction with McKinsey's Spendscape analytics solution, helps organizations manage procurement programs end-to-end by combining category-level transformation management, an AI-enabled digital spend control tower, and seamless linkage to actual spend and savings. By providing a structured environment with real-time visibility into spend and impact, the platform empowers procurement leaders to steer initiatives, strengthen governance, and accelerate sustainable savings.
Tackle industry challenges
With dozens of sector-specific products informed by successful programs and proven methodologies, Wave is tailored to address the unique nuances of every industry’s transformation, including:
- Financial services
- Telecommunications
- Healthcare
- Social sector
- Public sector
- Higher education
Telecommunications
Wave offers a tailored program management platform enabling telecommunications organizations to drive growth in B2B and B2C sectors, deliver network optimization projects, and digitize end-to-end customer journeys. With more than 130 telecommunications companies served worldwide—including 50 percent of the top 30 operators globally—and over $28 billion in business impact, Wave brings sector-specific expertise, real-time transparency, and a robust track record to support sustainable performance improvement at scale.
Global energy and materials
Our program management solution for oil and gas empowers organizations to accelerate growth through transformative initiatives such as driving impactful decarbonization and energy transition efforts, optimizing supply chain performance, and unlocking efficiencies by digitizing core operations. Wave has served over 80 oil and gas clients, including 70 percent of the top ten global producers, and managed over $47 billion in business impact.
Public and social sectors
Wave’s proven approach and flexible platform allow governments and nonprofits to realize mission-based objectives at scale, with the same robust tracking, visualization, and workflow tools as the private sector. Beyond cost efficiency efforts, the platform has helped agencies and organizations globally meet diverse goals such as maximizing nature conservation, delivering successful grant-funded projects, and facilitating the creation and adoption of new citizen services.