About

Small differences, at a large scale.

We believe small businesses are the bread and butter of the American economy. Lifting them with results-driven business analytics is our way of contributing.

What we do

We take the guessing game out of important decisions.

KADER Research & Systems helps small businesses achieve their goals using result-driven operations and financial analysis.

Whether you need to optimize your operations, figure out a budget, know how to properly compensate your workforce, or draw out the levers that empower leaders to drive growth — we can help.

Who we are

An association of experts, formed in 2022.

The company was formed when it became apparent that small businesses were underserved in results-driven business analytics. This science is typically reserved for large corporations, putting mom-and-pop shops at a disadvantage in business decision making.

We are passionate about helping small businesses stand tall and grow fast.

Our mission

To make small differences at a large scale — so that fifty years from now, small businesses are still the bread and butter of the American economy.

Our vision

For the small business model to become, once again, the enterprise model of choice — here and in the world. We want small businesses to leverage technology and results-driven analytics to their full potential, and to remain competitive.

Our values

Integrity

We tell you what the data says, including when it says the engagement should stop.

Diligence

Process work is unglamorous. We do it properly, all the way to the last function level.

Intelligence

Methods matched to the question — not the method we happen to like best.

Abdoul Kader Maiga

Abdoul Kader Maiga
Founder & Principal Analyst

Qualifications

Engineering discipline, applied to the business itself.

My passion is in helping businesses achieve their strategic goals via wholistic operations research and analytics. Because process includes people, part of my value-added proposition is helping clients improve employee engagement and performance while reducing operating costs.

Education

  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, honors — University of Arkansas, 2015
  • MBA candidate — Harding University, 2024

10+ years across

  • Renewable energy
  • Logistics and transportation
  • End-to-end supply chain

Areas of expertise

  • Leveraging analytics to understand and improve processes
  • Creating innovative analytical methods for novel technologies
  • Designing automated systems for data acquisition and analysis

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. It is the customer who determines what a business is. For it is the customer, and he or she alone, who through being willing to pay for a good or service, converts economic resources into wealth, things into goods.

Peter Drucker, circa 1954

Integrity — Diligence — Intelligence

Start with a conversation.

The first call is about your business, not our services. Bring the thing that has been bothering you.