Doug Hall (inventor)

Doug Hall is a best selling author and inventor who has hosted and appeared on a wide range of network radio and television shows. He is the Founder and CEO of Eureka! Ranch International, and in 2005 founded Innovation Engineering with the University of Maine.
Hall began his entrepreneurial career at age 12, inventing and selling magic and juggling kits. After earning a chemical engineering degree from the University of Maine, he joined Procter & Gamble where he rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor - inventing and shipping a record nine innovations in 12 months.
Doug Hall has been the keynote speaker at a wide range of events around the world, including the non-profit Central New York Famous Entrepreneurs Series.

Doug founded Eureka! Ranch in 1986. Originally designed as a "think tank for hire", the Ranch worked primarily with Fortune 100/500 companies looking for new product ideas. The Ranch partnered with the University of Maine in 2005 with the founding of a new field of study called Innovation Engineering. Designed as a system based on the principles of W. Edwards Deming and the Quality Movement, it consists of 48 skills designed to instill a mindset of never-ending innovation.

The 48 skills are the foundation for both the academic system and corporate consulting, with students graduating and private industry customers completing Black Belt Certification to mark mastery of the 48 skills.

Eureka! Ranch claims to separate themselves from other "innovation consultants" based on the following elements:

• Delivery of a complete system for innovation, from creation to commercialization
• Continuous improvement of tools and systems as the only major innovation firm investing in new research and development
• Practical tools proven by data; designed to be understood by everyone and powerful enough to be trusted by anyone
• Insistence on meaningful uniqueness; Eureka! Ranch classifies an innovation as only those ideas that both have additional meaning to someone's life and being new to the world
• Entrepreneurial approach; a focus on empowering individuals creates opportunities for collaboration and fun

• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-18. Retrieved 2013-04-18. 
• http://www.inc.com/magazine/19970501/1229.html
• http://www.umaine.edu/innovation
• http://www.eurekaranch.com/the-body-of-knowledge.html
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-08. Retrieved 2013-04-18. 
• http://www.eurekaranch.com/about-eureka.html

The R&D team of Eureka Ranch have developed an AI system called Merwyn Technology. This system is used to evaluate abstract ideas before additional effort is used to substantiate it. The system was named after Hall's father Merwyn Bradford Hall, who always hated the name Merwyn.

• Jump Start Your Brain (Clerisy Press, 2010)
• Maverick Mindset with David Wecker (Simon & Schuster, 1997)
• Jump Start Your BUSINESS Brain (Emmis Books, 2001)
• Jump Start Your MARKETING Brain (Clerisy Press, 2010)
• North Pole Tenderfoot: A Rookie Goes on a North Pole Expedition Following In Admiral Peary's Footsteps (Clerisy Press, 2009)

• Jump Start Your Business; Spend 48 sleepless hours with America's top new-product idea man. at Inc. Magazine
• The Idea Guru at Inc. Magazine
• Innovation Nation at Entrepreneur
• Q&A: American Inventor Judge Doug Hall at Entrepreneur
• Take It In for a Tuneup; A marketing change could put the wind back in your sales. at Entrepreneur
• I've Got an Idea!; You can get one, too, if you just learn to brainstorm a little more like Doug Hall. at Entrepreneur
• [1] at Cincinnati Magazine
• Dubyak, Hall feted by Maine Development Foundation at MaineBiz
• Getting schooled | Applying the methods of UMaine's star innovator to the system's quest for greater relevance in the work force at MaineBiz
• Innovation expertise | UMaine readies for Doug Hall's creativity-based curriculum at MaineBiz

• A Buyer’s Guide to Inventions, in Plain English at The New York Times
• Event explores how UMS can adapt to needs at Portland Press Herald
• Innovation Engineering expert commits to UM at Bangor Daily News
• Bowdoin manufacturer honored with award for innovation, global leadership at Bangor Daily News
• Engineering's 'fail fast, fail cheap' model has place in education at Portland Press Herald
• Increase your rate of success at USA Today
• Barefoot Guru at Business Courier
• Eureka Ranch offering new innovation sessions at Business Courier