All articles by Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.

Article How to Know if You’re AI Obsessed… or AI Enabled
February 12, 2026 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
"People react in two ways to Gen AI," writes Mohan Nair in his latest book. "One is what I call AI-afraid, and the second is AI-obsessed." The third way is learning how to be AI-enabled.
Article Innovating from Within: The 10 x 10 Laws
November 12, 2020 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
Mohan Nair has run the Innovation Force team at Cambia Health Solutions for 10 years now. He offers 10 rules to follow over 10 years in order to guide a program to success.
Article What Robin Hood and the Lone Ranger Teach Us About Innovation
October 31, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
Mohan Nair, CEO of Emerge, Inc. and a regular guest columnist for InnoLead, examines the parallels between his favorite childhood television shows and strategies for innovation.
Article 7 Tips for Introducing Ideas to Leadership
June 14, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
“Remember that one person’s idea is another’s cost,” writes veteran entrepreneur and executive Mohan Nair. Here are his tips on how to bring new concepts and ideas forward to leadership — even in non-traditional ways.
Article The 5 Misconceptions in Corporate Innovation (and How to Overcome Them)
August 18, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
Columnist Mohan Nair lays out the top misconceptions in corporate innovation, and supplies strategies for overcoming them. Misconception #1: “All innovation should be done through operational teams, otherwise it will be a failure.”
Article The 5 Resolutions of an Innovator for 2022
January 21, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
Mohan Nair, a longtime Chief Innovation Officer in the healthcare sector, author, and CEO of Emerge, Inc., shares his innovator’s resolutions for 2022.
Article 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Corporate Innovation Scaffolding
February 21, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
”You know you’re in trouble when, instead of displaying the fire within, you fear being fired,” writes Mohan Nair. In his latest column for corporate innovators, Nair offers five key insights to build an effective scaffold in any industry.
Article Advice from Cambia Health’s Chief Innovation Officer
June 15, 2016 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
Five years after starting the innovation team, Cambia Health Solutions' Mohan Nair shares what he learned about different innovators, including some you may want to avoid.