La importancia de la prospectiva en la sociedad.

The organizations are immersed in permanent processes of change, those that take guessed right decisions will manage to obtain better results in the long term. Is there some kind of method that facilitates the process of decision making under circumstances of uncertainty? this article presents us the prospective (prospiscere)1 as an alternative to design future scenes, includes as well some definitions, the method of futurology of Godet´s, and the parallel realized between the different technologies used to realize a prospective study. The paper contributes to the task of spreading and insertition in the societies, of the Prospective Methodology. This effort is realized as a previous step to its real incorporation like a formal “tool of support decisional”.