Applies lean manufacturing principles across the cloud service delivery chain to enable application and infrastructure service providers to sustainably achieve the shortest lead time, best quality, and value * Applies lean thinking across the cloud service delivery chain to recognize and minimize waste * Leverages lessons learned from electric power industry operations to operations of cloud infrastructure * Applies insights from just-in-time inventory management to operation of cloud based applications * Explains how traditional, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Enhanced Telecom Operation Map (eTOM) capacity management evolves to lean computing for the cloud