Development of an Adaptive and Collaborative

[[abstract]]Due to rapid development of information technology, information transfer is no more limited by time and space. It then causes much more competitive pressures to the enterprise. Collaboration is the trend of improving efficient and collaborative product development is an effective approach of enhancing business competition. A dynamic adjustment of the collaborative process is required to face uncertain business environment where multiple products or services development are frequently executed at the same time. The attributes of process changes occurred during collaborative projects should be collected and analyzed. The research proposes a system framework of adaptive and collaborative project management using ontology development. This framework extends the concept of a dynamic structure ? Eksarva and focuses on reducing degree of uncertainly generated from collaborative projects. Changes result in multiple and collaborative projects execution are investigated and analyzed. An information system is developed based on this proposed framework and tested by the case study of a food processing company. The results show process changes can be identified before and during project execution. Adaptive process are also generated and provided as alternatives to respond those changes. The impact of uncertainty can then be reduced through the adaptive mechanism discussed in the proposed framework and system development