Purpose of this blog
Innovation Engineering by Doug Hall: The purpose of Innovation Engineering is to provide Practical Ideas & Scientific Advice on how to increase speed and decrease risk with innovation.
The weekly Innovation Engineering Blog provides education and application homework assignments – to keep students focused on the Way to Wealth through Innovation. The homework assignments are built around the 13 Virtues of Innovation Engineering. The inspiration for these weekly assignments is Dr. Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues that he focused on one at a time, each week completing four 13 week cycles over 52 weeks.
The weekly Innovation Engineering Podcast provides practical ideas for how to accelerate innovation. It features Doug Hall and guests answering questions asked at Innovation Engineering Leadership Institutes plus a best of Brain Brew Radio radio segments.
Author Doug Hall
Doug Hall: Inventor, Entrepreneur and Author
Doug is founder and CEO of the Eureka! Ranch and the Innovation Engineering Management System. Doug has a unique balance of technical and business skills. A Chemical Engineer by education who in his first career as a corporate executive rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor at Procter & Gamble where he set a corporate record creating and shipping 9 innovations in 12 months.
In 1986 he started his second career as the founder of Eureka! Ranch an invention focused consulting firm that helps corporate clients find, filter and fast track ideas for more profitable customers, markets, products, services and systems.
What makes Eureka! unique is a deep understanding of both technology and marketing. Where other firms specialize on an area - the Eureka! Team are experts on creating, communicating and commercializing ideas.
The Eureka! process respects the interactions of technology benefits with customer insights. It digs into the interactions of product design with production and financial consequences. And, it values customer research and sales forecasting early in the process when there is still the time, energy and money to make adjustments.
The client benefit of the Eureka! Ranch’s “whole brain” approach to innovation is increased Speed to market (up to 6X) and Decreased Risk (by 30 to 80%). As a result the Eureka! Ranch has been named America’s #1 Innovation Team by Inc. Magazine, A&E Top 10 and CIO Magazine. Corporate clients include such top innovation companies as Walt Disney, Nike, American Express, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson.
Innovation Engineering is Born. In 2005, Doug embarked on his third career as the founder and a teacher of the Innovation Engineering Management System. The program teaches students, business, education and government leaders the tools and confidence to create, communicate and commercialize meaningfully unique ideas.
The program is a partnership between the Eureka! Ranch and Doug’s alma mater the University of Maine through The Foster Center for Student Innovation. (U Maine is also the alma mater of Doug’s grandmother, mother, father, sister, brother, son and nephew.)
The University of Maine offers an Undergraduate Minor and a Graduate Certificate in Innovation Engineering. This fall the program will be expanding to 6 other colleges and university with plans for expansion across the country.
With the help of the US Department of Commerceʼs NIST/MEP Network Doug has been able to bring the tools he has used for years with his large corporate clients to small to mid-size companies across the United States.
Doug holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Prince Edward Island and an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Maine.
He is the author of five books – his personal favorites include: Jump Start Your Business Brain and North Pole Tenderfoot. His next book will be Innovation Engineering Management System: The Way to Wealth through More Profitable Customers, Markets, Products, Services & Systems.
Websites
EurekaRanch.com: A consulting service that helps companies find, filter and fast track profitable innovations.
DougHall.com: Doug’s web site. If you’re reading this you are at it. It’s hosted within InnovationNews.com.
BrainBrewRadio.com: If you can’t sleep – you can listen to years of Brain Brew Radio broadcasts. It was broadcast nationally by PRI – Public Radio International.
Merwyn.com: The Eureka! Ranch’s advanced concept research and forecasting system. Merwyn helps leaders make smarter decisions on innovations – early in the process – when there is still the time, energy and money to make improvements.
InnovationNews.com: This website provides News, Wit and Wisdom on all things innovation. It’s early in it’s development – and will be a long term process. The goal is to link in every blog and podcast that has something meaningfully unique to say on innovation.
InnovationEngineeringSystem.com: This is your link to all things Innovation Engineering. It provides connections to…
InnovationEngineering.info: Here is where you can learn about when the next Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute is being held.
InnovationEngineeringProof.com: Success stories, testimonials and more about Innovation Engineering.
InnovationEngineeringLabs.com: This is where Innovation Engineering book readers, leadership institute graduates and companies committed to the system come to get ideas and to accelerate them to market faster with less risk.
Aspirations.com: The home of the Great Aspirations! parent workshop program. It provides free audio lessons and ideas to help parents inspire their children.
USAInnovation.org: The home of the USA National Innovation Marketplace. It connects inventors and companies so that they can understand what each others innovation needs and offers are in 2 minutes or less.
Books
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North Pole Tenderfoot
A rookie’s adventures and misadventures walking in Admiral Peary’s footsteps. |
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Jump Start Your Business Brain
This is currently my most “important book” It was a national best seller and named to Jack Covert’s prestigious list of the100 best business books of all time. The book details six principles for helping you think smarter and more creatively about innovation. Here’s a link to a Free MP3 Audio Book Download entire album HERE … or listen online
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Jump Start Your Brain version 2.0
The original version of this book got me hooked on writing books. In fact, there is nothing I enjoy more than sitting early in the morning with a cup of Eureka! Ranch Brain Brew coffee and typing some words onto the screen. I recently rewrote this book to version 2.0 – to correct some errors in the first edition. The book was written in partnership with my good friend David Wecker. We challenged each other to write text that either taught, inspired or made you laugh. If it didn’t do one of those three things it was rewritten until it did. When I did the rewrite I found myself still laughing which is a good sign. |
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Jump Start Your Marketing Brain
This book is the foundation upon which Innovation Engineering is built. In the process of writing it I read thousands of academic articles and did thousands of hours of quantitative research in the writing of this book. It was originally published in hardcover as Meaningful Marketing (A title I hope to go back to in the next edition). It book won critical acclaim but it’s depth of numbers, facts and science prevented it from reaching the mass audience of Jump Start Your BUSINESS Brain. I did a redesign and rewrite to add some caffeinated energy to it – but quite frankly it is what it is. If you are looking for a genuinely DEEP DIVE into the complex world of sales and marketing – and don’t want to read thousands of academic articles – this book is for you. |
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Making The Courage Connection
This book is very inspirational – and it came out 10 years to early. It was originally published as Maverick Mindset when the “dot.com” world was exploding and no admitted to having fear. The result was the book was a total bomb – from a commercial perspective. It features a blend of my personal stories and essays by by friend David Wecker of real-life profiles of people with the gumption to live their lives to the fullest. The publisher Simon and Schuster renamed the book Making the Courage Connection in paperback – again I think the original name of Maverick Mindset was better. |
Videos & Radio Show
Key Note Speeches: Known for this truthfulness and inspirational energy, Doug’s speaking style blends wit and wisdom. Audiences leave his talks with a sense of urgency to take action and an understanding of the art and science of innovation.
Doug has a passion for using scientific methods to help people think smarter and more creatively to grow their profits. In addition to a lifetime’s work in the field, he’s quantitatively tested every significant system and method known for creating, communicating, and commercializing ideas. If it works, he uses, teaches and preaches about it. If it doesn’t it’s out.
Speech Video: This video has excerpts from various speeches that I’ve given.
Town Doctor: This segment from the CBC TV show Venture won a Gemini Award for best Reality TV segment in Canada. I’m given 48 hours to help three small businesses in Tofinio BC.
University of Maine Commencement Address: This is the speech I gave at the University of Maine when I was presented with an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering. It is what I would want my children to hear at their graduation.
Best Spirit in the World: This is an unauthorized video of my feelings on what is the Best Spirit in the World. A ton of fun – made one saturday morning at the Ranch.
Innovation Engineering Video: This was filmed at the very first Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute at Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Maine.
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