25 price for the three books is 15% off the price of the books
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New Survey Finds Enterprises are Turning to ITIL + CMDBs as Keys to IT Change Management

That is why AIB,
Auchan, CSC, Credit Suisse, DISA, Fidelity Investments, JPMorganChase,
NIH, Progress Energy, Reuters, TIAA-CREF and other global
organizations rely on Managed Objects' BSM technology.

Stanford University Announces Online MS in Computational and Mathematical Engineering; Interdisciplinary Degree Explores Newest Research Methodology

It includes new courses specifically developed for the graduate
program, as well as an expanding selection of electives that draw from
all these areas of research.

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BROOKLINE, Mass."

Among many other key findings, the survey results include:

Configuration management database projects are underway or
will begin shortly - 46 percent of respondents say they have
implemented a configuration management database (CMDB) and
another 36 percent are planning an implementation . "Managed Objects has always worked to help the industry
navigate IT management trends, and we believe this survey provides
practical and realistic best practice recommendations that companies
can implement today to improve their IT process maturity.

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To help managers and executives keep the continuous improvement process
moving ahead during the summer months, the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute
(LEI) today announced a special summer reading offer for three of its most
accessible books about lean manufacturing and lean thinking, including the
just-published novel about lean manufacturing , The Gold Mine. Eastern
Standard Time.

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Womack PhD, in August 1997
to give people simple but powerful tools that enable them to apply a set of
ideas known as lean production and lean thinking, based initially on the
Toyota Production System.com

About Managed Objects

Managed Objects is the Business Service Management Company.
The CME master's degree curriculum reflects this interdisciplinary
focus.

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ICME faculty members have joint appointments with other
departments in the School of Engineering.

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Business Editors

MCLEAN, Va. Admissions to the program and graduation
requirements are the same for distance learners and fulltime students.

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In support of better IT process maturity, Managed Objects recently
released its Business Service Configuration Manager (BSCM) solution
which integrates IT service topology information, configuration, and
asset data to map complex IT service relationships and formulate a
single view of the enterprise via a federated or virtual Configuration
Management Data Base (vCMDB(TM)).
Business Service Management (BSM) aligns IT with the business by
integrating network, system, application, end user, and business
metric information into real-time business service dashboards.stanford.

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Summer Reading for Lean Thinkers

The
books on LEI's summer reading list are:

The Gold Mine: a Novel of Lean Turnaround combines entertainment and
insights about the lean transformation of a company and a manager. For more information visit the LEI News page at
http://www.
Top line results from the EMA survey show that enterprise IT
leaders have made monitoring and managing the IT configuration a top
IT priority, with 86 percent reporting an immediate or long-term need
to manage it more accurately.

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STANFORD, Calif. Johnson Professor in the School of Engineering. Twenty-three
Stanford master of science degree concentrations are available online
in: biomedical informatics, computer science, computational
mathematics and engineering, electrical engineering, management
science and engineering, and mechanical engineering.

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Advancements in super-computing have led
to the development of sophisticated multi-scale simulation tools,
increasing the need for computational engineers in almost every
industry.

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Enterprise Management Associates' Analyst Lisa Erickson-Harris to
Detail Best Practice Findings for Lowering Risk in Today's IT
Infrastructure in June 2nd Webinar

Managed Objects, the Business Service Management Company, today
released the results of an independent survey commissioned by Managed
Objects and conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
exploring ways to minimize outages associated with planned and
unplanned changes in today 's complex IT enterprises. Through
Managed Objects' BSM platform, companies effectively monitor, manage ,
and report on the services IT delivers to the business - services like
online trading and e-commerce .
Industry students may pursue degrees on a part-time basis while
continuing employment.

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"We're offering the three books on our summer reading list at a special
15% discount so Lean Thinkers will have money left over for a cool drink to
enjoy while reading," said Chet Marchwinski, LEI communications director.cfm?SelectedProductID=129

The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit training,
publishing, and research center founded by James P. Combined with data from Managed
Objects Business Technology Insight(TM) appliance that discovers
enterprise-wide IT service topology information , BSCM acts as a
catalyst to help companies accelerate ITIL best practice adoption. "To do mathematics and
mathematical applications requires the breadth and strength of a
top-rated university like Stanford," Moin says. Stanford researchers
currently use computer simulation tools to explore a broad range of
real-world challenges, including: more efficient jet engines, surgical
strategies with better outcomes, improved understanding of protein
folding in health and disease, and optimized Internet traffic.

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The book reveals lean manufacturing as a system, using the realistic story to
show how the principles are interrelated and how they lead to useful tools
such as kanban or 5S. EMA Research
Director Lisa Erickson-Harris will highlight best practice
recommendations for better management of IT infrastructure change
based on the findings from a new survey conducted with over 200 IT
professionals in a Web seminar on June 2, 2005 at 12 p.

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"Today's IT enterprise needs technology and process solutions that
automate topology discovery, speed the creation of a federated CMDB,
and accelerate IT process maturity," said Managed Objects CEO Siki
Giunta.----Stanford
University's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
(ICME) is offering the degree of master of science in computational
and mathematical engineering (CME) to industry students completely at
a distance beginning in autumn 2005.

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It deftly
weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean
manufacturing in an engaging story that is both compelling and instructive.lean.org/Bookstore /ProductDetails. The Stanford Center for
Professional Development will deliver courses online worldwide and via
television broadcast within the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Of the group using a process maturity model
more than half (51 percent) are specifically implementing ITIL - the
IT Infrastructure Library model.

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This authoritative book on applying lean principles is more relevant
than ever to executives and managers seeking the benefits of a lean
transformation. IT managers also report they are working
to improve IT service management through adoption of process maturity
models, with more than two -thirds (68 percent) currently using a
standard process model.managedobjects.
"Originally, scientists ' research methodologies were theory and
experiment," explains Parviz Moin, ICME Director and the Franklin P.

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For more information and to order, see LEI's summer reading offer at:
http://www .
"As IT moves from simple silo-based management to more complex
services management, the need for a better understanding of issues
around IT infrastructure and the impact of changes in that
infrastructure have become paramount," said Erickson-Harris.
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org/WhoWeAre/LEINews.
To attend the June 2 Webinar featuring Erickson-Harris, call
1-800-275-6014 or visit the Managed Objects Web site to register:
http://www. Consistently acknowledged by the
analyst community as best in class, Managed Objects has more BSM
implementations in place than any other company.
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"Computing now forms the third leg of a stool for scientific
discovery, allowing the performance and behavior of physical systems
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Existing CMDBs are updated infrequently - 48 percent of
respondents said they update the CMDB monthly or even less
frequently; only 21 percent reported updating their
information either daily or in real-time.com/events/EMAwebinar
Complete data and a white paper summarizing the study 's results
are immediately available to members of the media by contacting Frank
Strong at (703 ) 287-7819 or via e-mail at fstrong@managedobjects.

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Lean Thinking: (second edition) has been updated and expanded with two new
chapters. Co-authors Jim Womack and Dan Jones revisit the companies
examined in the original book and update the implementation Action Plan,
adding significant insights about value-stream mapping and spreading lean
thinking to customers and suppliers.

Lean Lexicon: a graphical glossary for Lean Thinkers (second edition)
includes several new and expanded definitions and lots of illustrations to
clarify the special language Lean Thinkers use -- and sometimes confuse. "Better
management of IT change and configuration can be accomplished by
utilizing process maturity models, implementing CMDBs wisely, and
modeling and visualizing both the infrastructure and the relationships
between elements.

Mapping IT relationships and dependencies is a
manually-intensive process - only 33 percent reported using
software to map relationships between elements in the IT
infrastructure.
The Stanford Center for Professional Development offers graduate
degrees, credit courses, certificates and professional development
short courses to meet the career-long learning needs of engineers,
scientists, technology professionals and managers .

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, When you take a vacation, don't
take a vacation from continuous improvement.lean.managedobjects . All courses
are taught by Stanford faculty and posted online within two hours of
live delivery .
Deadlines for applications to the CME MS program are March 1st for
autumn admission, July 31st for winter, and October 31st for spring.edu/content?cme

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Developed from a customer survey of the Lean Community about what concepts and
terms were most confusing, this latest edition of the Lexicon, features 56
illustrations and defines 167 key lean terms from A3 Report to Yamazumi Board .m. For more
information, visit www.