Virtual site management for adaptive and collaborative enterprises

Turbulent markets, increasingly distributed processes and globalisation are challenges to the companies which requires innovative solutions. The adaptive enterprise is characterized by flexibility for adjustment to a rapidly changing surrounding which goes beyond the range of a “planned flexibility”. Adaptive enterprises can only be implemented by means of collaborative and networked business structures. Their success depends highly on a thoroughly and recurring site management. Within these paper a procedure and the enabling equipment for a new virtual site management will be presented. The enabling equipment consist of a collection of tools, which allows the simultaneous and virtual presentation of all necessary information for evaluation. The procedure for the site management incorporates the idea of an continuous improvement circle, as it is forced from the ISO 9001:2000 process model.