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The dreaded dragon of traditional project management is alive and well and now stalking e-projects. "Bring it in on time, on scope, and on budget" continues to be the cry of CIOs and other senior management as they seek to get projects under control and avoid unpleasant surprises.

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).

I continue to see references to companies developing enterprise knowledge portals, business intelligence (BI) portals, customer relationship management portals, and even balanced scorecard portals.