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It takes a relentless drive to anticipate changes, discover new opportunities, and continually improve how to serve customers as an innovation company. As Managing Principal and Chief Strategy Officer with TIAG, Umang leads the company in identifying emerging customer needs, sectors, and reaching new milestones. With more than 18-years of experience and a proven entrepreneurial approach and methodology, Umang is known for making strategy happen. His rapid, successful decision-making continually creates momentum and has significantly grown TIAG’s operating revenue. A results-driven executive, Umang works directly with TIAG’s leaders to ensure the company’s principles and values are inherent in every client interaction. He has a unique ability to strategically identify opportunities and address them from a macro and micro-perspective. His deep experience leading major initiatives and providing technical leadership for complex organizational structures allows him to develop and implement creative solutions for the diverse challenges the highly regulated and ever-changing GovCon industry faces. This has led to impressive innovation, business process transformation, and service expansion for both TIAG and its customers–from identifying and capturing new sectors such as DHS, to expanding into markets like Huntsville and Charleston. Umang has helped the DoD and other government agencies consistently achieve success and realize their missions by creating and delivering innovative solutions at the Defense Health Agency, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, U.S. Army Warrior Transition Command, Army Analytics Group, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Materiel Command, and Letterkenny Army Depot. Umang began his career at TIAG as a senior-systems engineer and lead solutions architect analyst. Over his 15 year tenure with TIAG, he’s worn many hats as Director, GM, and VP. Today, he leverages his experience to continually transform and inspire leaders throughout the organization. His specific areas of focus include strategy development and execution, business growth, product development, and customer and market due diligence. He has particular expertise in enterprise management solutions, cybersecurity, and cloud utilization. Prior to joining TIAG, Umang was a Systems Engineer at MSSI and a Systems Administrator at SAIC. He is an active participant of HIMSS, AFCEA, and mentors TIAG’s Technology and Innovations Strike Team and portfolio management professionals to expand upon opportunities that truly advance customer initiatives. Umang was also a President’s Circle Awardee and a Distinguished Speaker at the CA IT Government Expo.
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No matter what industry an entrepreneur operates in, developing ways of keeping up with emerging trends will help ensure they remain in business for the long term. Staying knowledgeable about what’s happening in the business world isn’t as simple as it used to be. Whether an entrepreneur is operating in a local, national or international market, they have to be committed to learning, evolving and adopting new ways of doing business or else they risk being left behind. With digital platforms and technologies being created and improved upon daily, it’s essential to devise ways of keeping up with what’s going on in and outside of your industry. To help entrepreneurs keep up in a changing market, 12 Newsweek Expert Forum members share strategies they use to stay informed about industry trends.
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Before taking on any additional work, it's best to ensure you and your team have the capacity to complete the work. An increase in workload is one indication that a business is doing well in a market. However, if the capacity of the current team is not considered alongside growing responsibilities, a business may end up with too much work and no ability to ensure it’ll be done in a timely manner. To help dial back and shift focus before efficiency decreases, 14 Newsweek Expert Forum members each share one critical sign that a leader or business has too many projects going on at once.
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Creating a culture that actively encourages employees to generate and share ideas is a great way to keep your company competitive in the market. Once an employee has been in an organization for enough time, the fresh perspective they brought with them may start to dwindle. Learning more about the organization and the clients it serves as well as becoming entrenched in already established systems can make it difficult to branch out, especially if leadership isn’t open to making real changes that impact the business in significant ways. Contrary to popular belief, the best ideas don’t necessarily always have to come from the top, and devising ways to keep employees part of the conversations happening within an organization can only lead to business wins. To help leaders create a workplace culture that fosters innovation, 12 Newsweek Expert Forum members share methods they've adopted for keeping their teams curious and innovative.
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Rather than let the idea of change hold them back, business leaders can see change as a way to increase their chances of future success. When a habit shows success, it can be difficult to adopt different practices, even when success is limited or comes at a cost. This is a common occurrence in business when leaders become so dedicated to doing something the way it has always been done that they are unintentionally sabotaging their future success. Knowing where to start when making changes isn’t easy, but one of the first steps leaders can take is simply committing to the act of making changes for the better. Below, 10 Newsweek Expert Forum members share further advice on what leaders should do to address and break their own bad habits.
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Industry credibility and brand recognition are critical if you hope to optimize your business for its target market. With major competitors vying for the top spot in any industry, making a name for your business and improving the market can be a difficult journey. As a new business owner, this means you’ll need to dedicate plenty of time to learning and researching the industry to understand where your business can offer improvements. As business leaders, the members of Newsweek Expert Forum have dealt with the challenge of breaking into the industry and gaining credibility and recognition. Below, they offer 15 tried-and-true tips for entrepreneurs attempting to optimize the market.
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TIAG, Inc.
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We specialize in transformation. We are innovative problem solvers with a proven track record in management and technology services. We employ the brightest minds with a shared passion for making a difference for the clients we serve. We apply our expertise to streamline mission critical processes and pilot intricate initiatives to completion. And we deliver results that exceed expectations at every level of engagement. We are trusted partners, revered for our agility, adaptability, ingenuity and integrity. Our specialists are highly trained and finely honed by decades of real-world experience. Our collective skillset is multifaceted and designed to solve the complex challenges faced by our military and civilian sectors of government. Our mindset is focused on empowering people, yours and ours. We align to seek out the most technologically advanced ways to safeguard and support those who do the same for our nation. TIAG. Technology that Transforms.