What is this technique about
In the coming years, our planet, or if we prefer it, human beings will face a series of challenges to which we have to respond and in which there is a lot at stake, such as: climate change, developing a sustainable economy that respects the environment, fix the population in rural areas, robotization, Big Data, health, etc. If we want to respond adequately to these challenges, we will have to use, on the one hand, large doses of creativity, imagination and innovation and, on the other, to develop the initiative and leadership of our young people, who are ultimately the owners of our future (Isidro Montes ). And as Pablo Peñalver says, entrepreneurship is not an option, it is a necessity. Applying Lean startup in education helps us develop in our students the competence of sense of initiative and entrepreneurial spirit, while giving them a guideline to test their idea at an initial stage of the project with potential clients and thus, testing whether their model is correct or needs to be improved / revised.
Lean startup is, in essence, a methodology to develop businesses and products that consists of applying the scientific method to a business model. It is about proposing a hypothesis or business idea, creating a rudimentary prototype with a low cost and testing it with clients in an initial stage, so that we can immediately detect possible problems and thus implement improvements in that prototype before investing large amounts of time and money on a product whose approach may be wrong.
Lean startup is closely linked to another methodology that encourages creativity: Design thinking. The Design Thinking methodology encourages the search for innovative answers to current problems, while Lean startup puts this idea to the test.
