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Kolar Associates - Offerings
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Providing new ways to solve old problems. Brad brings a fresh, unique perspective to help you solve the day to day challenges of running your business. His offerings and services provide insight across the entire spectrum of leadership from strategic planning to drawing insights from data to managing people and change. Click on an offering below to see how Brad can help you. Rethinking data to drive decisions and actions. Strategic problem solving and innovation. Maximizing individual and team performance.
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Kolar Associates - About Brad
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Challenging you to challenge the status quo. For nearly 20 years, Brad Kolar has been helping organizations rethink how they work. With his well-honed ability to clarify the problem constraining your group s success, Brad will help identify and change the assumptions that are holding you back. He helps you quickly and effectively answer your business questions to drive decision-making and action. Brad challenges you to consider questions that you might have overlooked. Brad's Bio and Experience.
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Quality in Practice: Whats Better? Satisfied Customers or Loyal Customers?
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Proven, Practical Advice and Assistance in Achieving Excellence through Six Sigma, Lean, and Quality Management Methods. Sunday, November 28, 2010. Satisfied Customers or Loyal Customers? If you are running a business, what would you rather have, satisfied, happy customers or loyal customers? 1 Recommend the supplier to others more often. 3 Partner with the supplier on new opportunities. To contrast, Satisfied Customers. 1 Purchase based on price. 2 Purchases remain steady or decline. There is no swaying...
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Quality in Practice: Training-An Investment in People
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Proven, Practical Advice and Assistance in Achieving Excellence through Six Sigma, Lean, and Quality Management Methods. Monday, October 24, 2011. Training-An Investment in People. Is training best applied at the moment of application or is training something that is best done ahead of time so that when application does happen the trainee knows what to do? So, what is training and what is education? Chicagoland, IL, United States. I am a Organizational Excellence Architect with more than twelve years of ...
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Quality in Practice: May 2010
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Proven, Practical Advice and Assistance in Achieving Excellence through Six Sigma, Lean, and Quality Management Methods. Monday, May 17, 2010. Whats the difference between flavors of six sigma? Six Sigma for Manufacturing; Six Sigma for Healthcare; Six Sigma for Public Sector; Six Sigma for Education. Monday, May 10, 2010. Improve your Lean with some Six Sigma (and vice versa). With the advent in recent times of a combined lean and six sigma approach to continuous improvement efforts, one might think tha...
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Quality in Practice: October 2011
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Proven, Practical Advice and Assistance in Achieving Excellence through Six Sigma, Lean, and Quality Management Methods. Monday, October 24, 2011. Training-An Investment in People. Is training best applied at the moment of application or is training something that is best done ahead of time so that when application does happen the trainee knows what to do? So, what is training and what is education? Monday, October 3, 2011. Is any continuous improvement good continuous improvement? Ask any quality manage...
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Quality in Practice: October 2009
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Proven, Practical Advice and Assistance in Achieving Excellence through Six Sigma, Lean, and Quality Management Methods. Monday, October 26, 2009. Why embark on a journey to ISO registration? My experience is that every place I've ever reviewed has had much more than six procedures. So where did all those extra procedures come from? Can internal audit reveal anything about why key objectives are not being realized? Could a structured problem solving approach solve key customer problems? First a little de...
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Quality in Practice: December 2009
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Proven, Practical Advice and Assistance in Achieving Excellence through Six Sigma, Lean, and Quality Management Methods. Monday, December 28, 2009. Book Review: The Recipe for Simple Business Improvement. I'm sort of taking an break during the holidays. I'll be back with a new post on January 4th. Meanwhile, I recommend checking out my reading list on Linked-In and catching up on your holiday reading. Here's a review of a book I recently finished. By David W. Till. 4 Maintaining predictability: Keeping t...
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Quality in Practice: March 2010
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Proven, Practical Advice and Assistance in Achieving Excellence through Six Sigma, Lean, and Quality Management Methods. Monday, March 29, 2010. Lean Tool of the Month-SMED. Lets start with a visual example of SMED. Click this link. For a video of SMED in a non-manufacturing environment. Monday, March 22, 2010. Six Sigma Tool of the Month-Defect vs Defective. What is a defect? What is a defective? Why do I care? Last month I discussed capability analysis as the Six Sigma Tool of the Month. Get a refr...
