Internship Innovation Project (2235.YR.005531.1)

General information

Type:	PRA	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 1	Alvaro Rodriguez Moya	Dirección General y Estrategia	ENG

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE



The capacity to develop and move ideas forward in an uncertain environment, with limited resources, and with a diverse team is central to innovative and entrepreneurial behavior. Nowadays in this VUCA world, if we aim to create something novel, we need an efficient and effective methodology to validate our hypothesis, remove uncertainty and find an answer to the many questions we will have.

The problem for non-technical entrepreneurs and innovators in today's software-ruled world is that they cannot go from idea to solution. Given that only 0.3% of the population knows how to code, they are limited to make their innovative ideas a reality.

I2P is an immersive learning experience that aims to change that. We want to empower you!

The goal is to deliver a fully-functional, validated prototype at the end of the program, and present it on the Demo Day along with the learnings and challenges.

The core of the course is building functional solutions for real challenges launched by different organizations. During 7-8 weeks you will:
Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams in order to solve a challenge for an organization. Every team will work on one challenge throughout the course.


You will work as if you were a team in the organization, gaining context from key contact people within the organization, and collaborating with them regularly.

As a team, you will be required to produce fully functional solutions to the given challenge, test these ideas in real context, iterate the solution, and present a final proposal to the organization at the end of the course.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES



The objectives of the course are:
To solve an innovation challenge through teamwork, the application of different techniques and methodologies, and the usage of different tools.
To experiment your way forward in a hands-on learning experience.
To apply techniques that you have learnt in other courses and to leverage the experience and expertise of your team members in order to solve your project challenge.
To learn to work in a real environment, using real business tools, distributing the work effectively, and collaborating with other team members and 3rd parties.
This is a practical course. We assume that you have learnt methodologies and tools in other courses that you can apply in I2P. We will share theory and practical capsules which will allow you to build on the base that you already have. It is up to you and your team to decide which methodologies and tools make sense in solving your challenge.
The course helps you to develop the following competencies:
Know how to apply previously acquired knowledge in practice (e.g. design thinking, innovation management, lean startup).
Select the right no-code tools to develop a fully or partially working product
To lead your own work in an independent, proactive manner. Develop your own innovation toolkit with methodologies that work for your team.
To experiment your way forward. This is an explorative project requiring constant reflection and adaptation to new information acquired, dead ends, and failures, as much as a software engineer's job.
Ability to work and efficiently collaborate in a multidisciplinary team, understanding where you and others can contribute to creating a product from scratch: customer interviews, design, workflows, research, implementation?
Manage the key relationships with the organization.



By the end of this course you will be able to design and build fully functional products using no-code tools. You will gain the confidence to test and build your own product without dependency on anyone else, specifically software engineers!

- Adkin, D. (2021) The Future is No Code. https://www.adalo.com/the-future-is-no-code/intro
- Trivedi, V. (2014) How to Speak Tech: The Non-Techie's Guide to Technology Basics in Business, Apress.
- Croll, A. & Yoskovitz, B. (2013) Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster, O'Reilly.
- Furr, N. & Dyer, J. (2014) The Innovator's Method. Bringing the Lean Startup into your Organization, Harvard Business Review Press.
- Kelley, T. (2001) Prototyping is the shorthand of innovation, Design Management Journal, 12, 3.
- Liedtka, J. (2011) Learning to use design thinking tools for successful innovation, Strategy & Leadership, 39, 5.

Group	Teacher	Department
Year 1	Alvaro Rodriguez Moya	Dirección General y Estrategia