Whatfirst is an easy-to-use web based solution for designing and managing the performance of a capability based business architecture. It allows the key stakeholders of your organization to collaborate on your business architecture through its multi-user repository including:

Business Architecture Guidance

Whatfirst guides your organization’s stakeholders through the business architecture framework used by some of the world’s most admired and high performing organizations. Additionally, Accelare, the creators of WhatFirst, helped design the business architecture framework used by Microsoft Consulting Services.

Real-time Capability Performance Scorecards

WhatFirst includes an out-of-the-box capability performance management module, rolling up the organizations key performance indicators into an actionable and simple organizational scorecard.

Industry and Functional Templates

To jumpstart your efforts, WhatFirst includes a significant inventory of business architecture templates for a number of industries and the most common functional departments.

Blue Ocean Strategy Value Mapping Module

Customers are often disregarded in business architecture efforts.  WhatFirst includes a Value Mapping module to put your customer experience at the forefront of your initiative.  This necessary component ensures an understanding of which capabilities are most important to the organizations customer value proposition.

Manage Projects

WhatFirst enhances the organizations ability to get the most of its investments. WhatFirst captures the costs and benefits of each project, links to the impacted capabilities, and interfaces with project execution tools like Microsoft Project Server to provide a real-time status on your project investments.

Capability Content Repository

WhatFirst allows you to easily store all of the organizations content associated with your business architecture in a central multi-user repository.  This includes Microsoft Office documents (visio, word, excel) as well as modules for:

• SIPOC models
• RACI charts
• Organizational Information through corporate directory integration