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Week 3 Assignment

Business architecture is extremely important for architectural operation in every domain and intrinsically requires being present and carried out accordingly. It supports enormously in offering the corporate worth of succeeding architecture to the key shareholders and return on investment (ROI). Business Architecture Designs or Blueprints are the same as any dimension of a business. In fact, Business Architecture enables a company to determine what improvements its products or services should bring. It also allows them to collect the data that was received and to plan for the future.

Given the previous circumstance, if a business is already in existence, the business can use all aspects of the organization and external details, such as the clients, overall market, taxation, international prices, expenditures, inflation, recession etc. to help prepare how the business might prosper. With that being said, it would not be smart to sell an expensive item in an area where that business is in a poor area and serve comparatively poor customers in that marketplace.  In this instance, proper business designs will ensure the business is running as expected.   This document will initially justify the choice of business structure for Adopt-a-Farm (AaF) Company in its existing condition, then document and recognize the high-level (advanced) needs and build the business capability model and value chain of the company. Finally, it discusses how the company’s structural model will vary in case it migrates to the cloud computing.

Service-driven or Product-driven Structure of Adopt-a-Farm Company

Businesses blueprints are an important planning components in any organization. When it comes to the business planning, one of the main challenges is to distinguish on whether a business is a product-driven or service driven business.  Just as the term indicates, a product-driven business sells physical items, while a service-driven business sells a service. According to Brandenberg (2018) the difference between the two is “the product business sells a physical, tangible product, while the service business owner sells his/her skills as the primary product” (para 2).

With that said, after careful study of AaF, it's determined that this business is a service-driven functional structure.  AaF is primarily a service-driven firm for the following reasons:

·         AaF does not produce any specific physical product (Laureate, n.d.).

·         AaF aids in attaining suitable farming/agriculture land to provide a service (Laureate, n.d.).

·         AaF purpose is to reach as many customers as possible in order to execute a helpline support platform that permits farmers and people to benefit from one another (Laureate, n.d.).

By customers turning to the farmers and getting their individual items, the farmers get open support in exchange for help to the individuals. It is a place typically for individuals serving environment and people. AaF is non-profit in all manners and henceforth it can’t be product-driven (Lankhorst, 2012).