Sapiens was born from the need to organize and order our own questions and, in this way, facilitate the understanding of the world of gastronomy. It was later when we considered that it could be a methodology with a transversal vocation, applicable to other disciplines. There was no objective of creating a methodology, but based on our research, a methodology was taking shape.

Sapiens is a research methodology with a holistic and systemic vision, since it considers that everything is connected and is based on systems theory and systems thinking, and also with a historical vision.

Like any research methodology, it is a tool that can be applied to any place where there is knowledge and that help connect that knowledge and understand. Therefore, from the systems point of view, it is a resource of the process to understand, within the system to understand.

Sapiens includes some philosophical principles and some methods that form the methodology. The realization of the processes, phases, techniques and tools vary depending on the topicas some will need further insight into one type of knowledge or another, and some may not need all the types of knowledge that have been envisioned. The methodology is flexible, and the details of the application have to be defined in each of the investigations.

Your application generates a concrete result which can be a physical or digital file, academic works such as a final degree project or a doctoral thesis, educational material, content in different formats such as books or exhibitions, reports for company projects, an organization and operation audit, of experience or creation and innovation, or the generation of new creative ideas that can be transformed into innovations.

The final objective can be simply to manage information and knowledge, or to learn, but it can also be to teach, communicate, analyze the context, analyze a company, improve aspects such as quality and efficiency in a company, and also create and innovate. An in-depth understanding of the topic is the foundation from which to work toward these goals.

Initially, Sapiens was developed for the research on gastronomic restoration that gave rise to the Bullipedia, but later it became general so that it can be applied to any field, sector, organization, project, product or service.

A great difficulty when talking about Sapiens as a methodology is the confusion that exists between terms as action, technique, tool, technology, phase, process, system, procedure, procedure manual, method or methodology.

Some of these terms are used in reference to several different concepts, and several different terms are used in reference to the same concept, interchangeably, when they should not be.
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Sapiens could be several of these things, depending on how they are defined and depending on the context, and we ourselves have called it differently at different times, alternating method and methodology, but we are inclined to call it methodology.

• A tool It is a resource that allows an activity to be carried out, be it tangible or intangible, that requires the application of some type of energy, be it manual, mechanical or electronic, and that is external to the individual. A software, for example, is also a tool.
• A tool facilitates the application of techniques, and can also be used for example in processes. It contributes to obtaining a final result, but by itself it does not have this final intention, but most of the time it acquires a purpose within a process.
• A technique It is made up of rules that refer to actions. Techniques can be used in processes, which are part of systems, of methods, they can be linked to procedures, etc.
• A successfulLike a method, it is made up of phases or stages. Each part of the process or method is a phase or stage. Depending on the case, a process can have order, and therefore be synonymous with method, or not. In the process of boiling pasta at home, there are a few phases, but actually the order can vary. You can open the package at the beginning of everything, but not necessarily. It is a process, not a method. Although it could become a method.
  
  ‍The systems They are made up of the processes together with the resources they use, the results they produce, the feedback they generate, and the environment in which they are located. A system can also have subsystems within it, or it can be part of other systems. Each of them also has its processes, resources, results, feedback, and environment.
• A successful It is not mandatory that it be connected with other processes or with other elements, and instead a system is connected with other systems, and the elements of the system are also connected to each other. u A procedure is always linked to a process, while a process can be linked to one procedure, or to several, but not necessarily. There can be no procedure without a process, but there can be a process without a procedure.
• A procedure it is always linked to a process, whereas a process can be linked to one procedure, or to several, but not necessarily. There cannot be a procedure without a process, but there can be a process without a procedure.
• A method it is a way of doing things in a structured and orderly way. A process may have an order but it is not required. In a method there must always be order, and if not, it is not a method. This is our vision.
• They are methods, for example, the general methods of logic (deduction, induction, analysis and synthesis) also the particular and specific methods of science (such as the experimental method or the statistical method).
• Instead, the so-called scientific methodAlthough it is called a method, in reality we believe that it fits more in the definition of methodology, since it is not a single method but a set of methods.