“Eureka! Ranch’s unconventional approach has won raves from some of the biggest corporations.”
—CNN
“When Doug meets Disney, creativity ne’er wanes. Our team explodes when he jump-starts our brains!”
—Ellen Guidera, VP, The Walt Disney Company
“Eureka! Ranch . . . has developed more new products (or offshoots of existing ones) than any other organization in America.”
—New York Magazine
“America’s #1 Idea Guru”
—A&E Top 10
“America’s Top New Product Idea Man”
—Inc. magazine
“Eureka! Ranch goes to any length to encourage a fresh perspective . . . clients say it works.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Doug Hall has a method to his madness, a rigorous, quantifiable process for inventing breakthrough ideas for clients. Unlike many creative gurus hustling ideation wares in the corporate marketplace, Doug makes it imperative that his Eureka! Inventing processes are quantified every step of the way.”
—Todd Datz, Features Editor, CIO magazine
“Hall has a habit of thinking big. His credentials are impeccable.”
—Unlimited magazine, Scotland
“[Doug Hall is] an eccentric entrepreneur who just might have what we’ve all been looking for, the happy secret to success.”
—Dateline NBC
“Doug takes all the mystery out of marketing and replaces it with a systematic and logical system. For anyone who takes their marketing role seriously, Doug’s books are a must-read.”
—Kip Knight, VP, eBay
Other Books by Doug Hall
Jump Start Your Brain
A Proven Method for Increasing Creativity up to 500% with David Wecker
Maverick Mindset
Finding the Courage to Journey from Fear to Freedom with David Wecker
(Paperback Title: Making the Courage Connection)
Jump Start Your Business Brain
The Scientific Way to Make More Money
Meaningful Marketing
100 Data-Proven Truths and 402 Practical Ideas For Selling MORE with LESS Effort
(Paperback Title: Jump Start Your Marketing Brain)
North Pole Tenderfoot
A Rookie’s Adventures and Misadventures Walking in Admiral Peary’s Footsteps
Jump Start Your Brain 2.0
How Everyone at Every Age Can Be Smarter & More Creative
Driving Eureka!
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Published by Clerisy Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hall, Doug, 1959- author.
Title: Driving Eureka! : problem-solving with data-driven methods & the innovation engineering system / Doug Hall.
Description: Birmingham, AL : Clerisy Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017022462| ISBN 9781578605811 (hardback) | ISBN 9781578605828 (eISBN)
Subjects: LCSH: Creative ability in business. | Systems engineering—Technological innovations. | Creative thinking. | Problem solving. | Industrial productivity—Measurement. | Eureka! Ranch (Firm)
Classification: LCC HD53 .H349 2018 | DDC 658.4/063—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017022462
Cover design: Travis Bryant
Book design: Annie Long
Illustrations: Steve Jones
Indexer: Meghan Brawley
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Acknowledgments
This book covers my life’s work and learnings. However, I am not the sole author. To paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton, if there is anything on these pages or in our college courses and tools that is valuable, it’s because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. The following people helped create the Innovation Engineering movement and this book—some in small ways, many in big ways. They are the heart, brains, and soul of Innovation Engineering.