Doug Hall (inventor)

Doug Hall
Doug Hall at Eureka! Ranch in 2009

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:

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.

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