In our second interview podcast of November 2018, Doug Hall provides an overview of his latest book, “Driving Eureka!: Problem-Solving with Data-Driven Methods & the Innovation Engineering System”

(This is Tripp's third interview with Doug.  Link here for the first interview and here for the second.)

Highlights include:

• Inventing “big ideas” for clients, as they entered the “Killing Zone”
• Applied innovation, using the Deming Philosophy
• How to “Find, Filter, and Fast-Track” big ideas
• Happy clients, paying big money, but the ideas did not happen
• Half the potential value of the big ideas is lost in internal development efforts
• The independent parts of organizations work to promote their own silo
• The average new product idea has a 95% failure rate in the market place
• What’s wrong with project management?
• Innovation projects have uncertainty
• Problem solving with data-driven methods
• Big ideas are easy – making them real is hard
• A major obstacle is a reliance on opinions vs data
• Shifting innovation from an art to a science
• What to take away from this book?
• All products follow a life cycle, from birth to death
• Innovation for extending product life
• How to create an innovation culture
• Innovate or die
• Obstacles to innovation – Lack of Leadership and Lack of a Process
• Brain Brew Whiskeys for mass customization
• Don't feel you need to do "all" of the Deming Philosophy
• Just get started!
• How to receive a special gift from Doug - go to gift