One surprising result from a recent Cutter Consortium business-IT strategies survey is that, on average, those who spend more money on e-business have a higher e-business success factor. Assuming that higher cost comes from larger, more complex projects, we tend to assume that higher project price tags will be accompanied by lower success factors. Respondents surprised us by reporting just the opposite. As Figure 1 shows, those who have spent less than US $1 million on e-business report lower success factors than those who have spent more than $1 million.