It is the visualization that allows us to see the whole football pitch all the time.

It is impossible to control a whole organization.

But it is possible to standardize and visualize everything we do.

Through visualization, we can control the whole organization

by just controlling the deviations form the standards.

It is the deviations that trigger improvement of the normal state.

(src: Book: This is LEAN - Niklas Modig & Par Ahlstrom)