Wavestone : About Us

Who We Are

Wavestone is a business and digital consulting firm that supports organizations in delivering their most critical transformations. Over the past two decades, Wavestone has championed the transformations of more than 700 of the world’s largest enterprises from a wide range of industries. Behind these successes is our ability to bring a winning mix of extensive hands-on experience, powerful analytical skills, and creative problem-solving to address our clients’ greatest challenges.

Wavestone client experience demonstrates that a shared sense of enthusiasm is at the core of successful change. We strive to establish this momentum-building force by structuring everything we do to reinforce what we call “The Positive Way.” It’s how we drive change in our clients, it’s who we are, and it’s our commitment to creating a positive impact — for all our stakeholders.

Our Model

Wavestone is designed to drive results for our clients. Our globally connected network of 3,500 consultants is a blend of former C-suite executives, industry leaders, and high-quality talent at all levels who will tackle your most complex issues with a fresh approach. Close cooperation between our teams is at the core of our model.

We’re dedicated to creating a true 360° capability that helps our clients drive the operational excellence and business growth they need while establishing the leadership position they want. Enriching our extensive suite of advisory services with notable new acquisitions like Everest Group Consulting and NewVantage Partners reflects our continuous commitment to deliver the best enterprise-wide solutions to our clients.

Whatever your needs, our goal is to help you set new standards of excellence that drive your business forward and achieve positive outcomes through:

Digital Strategy & Planning
The right digital strategy for your enterprise to drive results that redefine the future.

Services Optimization & Sourcing
Helping business leaders maximize value from IT and business process services.

Cybersecurity & Operational Resilience
Securing digital transformations from strategic planning through to execution, while offering an appropriate and rapid response in the event of an attack.

Data Strategy & Governance
Cutting-edge expertise in data strategy, data governance, data management, and data security.

IT Talent Solutions
Unmatched, flexible talent models to support your most critical vacancies.

Wavestone Named One of Management Consulted’s 2022 Top 25 Consulting Firms

Management Consulted ranks Wavestone among the Top 25 Consulting Firms in the US in the Accounting, Finance, and Technology category.

WGroup (now Wavestone) Among 10 Most Promising Cloud Consulting / Services Companies

CIO Review recognizes Wavestone for innovation and exceptional expertise in cloud solutions.

WGroup (now Wavestone) Recognized as a "Best of World's Best Sourcing Advisor" by IAOP

This marks our third consecutive win, and a nod to the firm's exceptional ratings in customer references, certifications, and corporate social responsibility.

WGroup (now Wavestone) Selected as Most Promising ITSM Solution Provider

CIO Review honors our best-in-class run optimization services.

Wavestone is ISO 27001:2013 certified for its security audits and incident response services on the Paris and Nantes offices. This certification is issued by LSTI in accordance with ISO requirements. It ensures a level of consideration of cybersecurity risks during the concerned engagements.

On August 1, 2017 and the November 14, 2017, Wavestone received from Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information (ANSSI) the Visa de Sécurité for respectively the PASSI RGS and PASSI LPM qualifications of its following activities : auditing processes and physical security, auditing systems configuration, auditing systems architecture, auditing code and penetration testing (qualification certificate n°20004 and n°5698).

Take advantage of our in-house tools and services for APT hunting, crisis management, incident response, and digital forensics. To discover more, click here.

Our Approach

We have a passion for driving change for growth, lowering cost and risk, and creating the trust that gives business leaders the desire and conviction to act. We believe in helping our clients strengthen their foundations for innovation and growth to ensure a more sustainable and resilient future.

We are known for our pragmatic, outcome-driven, customer-specific, technology-agnostic approach, which is threefold:

Develop a Comprehensive Strategy and Roadmap

Strategy is what will make or break your business. Whether triggered by the need to reduce cost, optimize efficiency, improve service quality, increase speed and agility, transform stakeholder experiences, or elevate value to the business, Wavestone provides an outside-in view of the best path to the right action.

We collaborate with our clients, service providers, software partners, and each other to develop results-driven strategies that improve efficiency, create value, and direct enterprise resources to the right projects, talent, and technologies to drive compelling business results.
Customize and Adapt to Your Business Needs

The path to achieving business goals is different for every client. At Wavestone, we embrace these differences and tailor our approach based on each client’s unique business requirements, competitive environment, and technological imperatives. We work collaboratively to craft solutions to answer our clients’ distinct needs — there are no challenges too big or details too small for our teams.
Provide Collective Expertise and Value

Whether a client retains Wavestone for Digital Strategy and Planning, Services Optimization and Sourcing, Cybersecurity and Operational Resilience, Data Strategy and Governance, or IT Talent Solutions, our recommendations derive from fact-based analyses and deep dive synthesis the most crucial considerations informed by market knowledge and experience.

Attuned to shifting landscapes and the challenges of balancing new objectives with traditional performance and stability challenges, our consultants have led and transformed many large IT and business services organizations. We provide our clients with the innovation, forward-thinking, and thought leadership required to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow head-on. Our “been there before” experience equips us to keenly understand the human sensitivities of change and drive practical solutions that fit within your culture.

CSR

Wavestone has been committed to CSR for ten years and has made it a key part of its corporate strategy. Wavestone is recognized for its extra-financial performance and aims to remain a leader in CSR. Wavestone has been ranked in the top 3 in its category for CSR in the Gaïa Rating for the past five years.

Our commitments to a sustainable performance

Based on the most material issues identified, and in line with the firm’s business model, Wavestone has decided to express its CSR policy in five commitments: