Patent ID: 8504455

Claim:
A method for determining a wave assignment for a customer in connection with a corporate change, the method comprising: determining a multiple number of waves of a corporate change involving an acquiring institution and an acquired institution, each wave of the multiple number of waves comprising at least a portion of a process by which at least one customer account of the acquired institution and assets associated with the at least one customer account of the acquired institution are transitioned to the acquiring institution, the determining of the multiple number of waves comprising: retrieving, with an electronic processor, first customer account data from an electronic data storage medium, wherein the first customer account data is associated with a first plurality of customer accounts of the acquired institution that is to be transitioned to the acquiring institution; establishing, with the electronic processor, a baseline wave assignment for second customer account data that is a portion of the first customer account data associated with a second plurality of customer accounts of the first plurality of customer accounts of the acquired institution that are to be transitioned to the acquiring institution, the baseline wave assignment comprising criteria that will provide for the second plurality of customer accounts of the acquired institution to be transferred to the acquiring institution in a baseline wave having the baseline wave assignment; applying the baseline wave assignment to the second customer account data associated with the second plurality of customer accounts; determining, with the electronic processor, a line of business associated with the first customer account data; applying, with the electronic processor, at least one wave assignment to a remainder of the first customer account data associated with the first plurality of customer accounts that is not assigned to the baseline wave assignment in response to at least the baseline wave assignment and the line of business associated with the first customer account data; and transferring the at least one customer account of the acquired institution and the assets associated with the at least one customer account in each of the multiple number of waves of the corporate change.