PROSPECTIVA ESTRATÉGICA: ORÍGENES, CONCEPTOS CLAVE E INTRODUCCIÓN A SU PRÁCTICA

This article tries to provide an overview about the origins, concepts and key ideas regarding strategic futures, as well as their use in the field of organizations, companies, governments and territories, and their contribution to development, good governance and sustainability. From the principle’s exhibition in which the prospective is based on discipline, the article has been focused to show its contribution to the processes about planning and strategic reflection, planning of territories, organizations and companies. Also, it presents some important cases of application in different areas, their approach and main features, requirements and main conditions to do, and it ends with the future challenges posed to the own strategic futures.