Document and Process Transformation During the Product Life Cycle

Based on our experiences1 in the corporate banking department of the Union Bank of Switzerland we are convinced that business, IT and organizational aspects have to be considered in an integrated way while developing IT-strategies. IT-strategies are crucial for an effective (business) development because they identify the constant and the changing parts of an IT infrastructure during product life cycle. In order to achieve this, we state three design invariants: the deep structure of the process, the dependencies within the process, and the information handled. We believe that identifying these invariants will lead to a deeper understanding of product-life-cycles.