Transitioning Outsourcing Agreements: Barriers to Success

by Eric Buel

As part of Cutter Consortium's ongoing survey of IT executives and managers on the nature of their IT outsourcing, we asked whether companies had transferred responsibility for a system from one service provider to another. A fairly large number (59%) had not, indicating that there is not a high level of experience in this area (see Figure 1). Of those respondents who had been involved in such a transition, the average success rating was 3.5 (out of 6), near the midpoint of the scale and thus in line with the success rate of outsourcing as a whole (see Figure 2).

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Transitioning Outsourcing Agreements: Barriers to Success August 2001