Wave

Wave by McKinsey is an AI-enabled SaaS program management platform designed to help organizations plan, execute, and sustain bold change at scale. Built on more than 15 years of McKinsey business transformation experience, Wave combines rigorous program management, proprietary performance data from thousands of successful programs, advanced analytics, and embedded AI capabilities to align leaders and teams around a single, trusted source of truth. From ideation through execution, Wave enables organizations to translate strategic priorities into a disciplined pipeline of initiatives tied to measurable business outcomes.

Wave supports end-to-end change execution through configurable workflows, robust tracking of initiatives and business metrics, and flexible, best-in-class reporting and dashboards, leveraging AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and related cloud infrastructure. Organizations use Wave to set top-down targets, manage bottom-up initiatives, monitor progress against program milestones and value, and identify risks and dependencies early. Powered by the world's only repository of transformation performance data, spanning 500,000 distinct initiatives across industries, Wave enables entire enterprises with benchmarking, predictive insights, and data-driven decision-making.

Wave's AI capabilities further accelerate impact by guiding users through initiative creation, approvals, and execution, delivering personalized coaching and just-in-time learning, synthesizing insights for stakeholders, and predicting risks of delay or value leakage. Customizable, secure, and scalable, Wave integrates with existing enterprise systems and adapts to a wide range of goals - from digital transformation to M&A integration and sustainability programs. Trusted by organizations globally, Wave helps embed accountability, build capability, and drive sustained business impact.