This manuscript aims to present connections between scenario building techniques and Kondratieff’s long economic waves, as a way of identifying patterns in medium and long-term planning for companies’ future scenarios. This essay considers two different conceptual contributions to improve forecasting on organizations taking as a departure point Kondratieff’s economic waves and Schwartz’s future scenario planning. Analyzing these two theoretical contributions, we concluded that the information obtained through the path of Kondratieff’s waves can delineate future scenarios as a way to anticipate challenges, opportunities, and threats for organizations’ contingency planning. As a contribution for practitioners, considering these two approaches together enables greater performance for strategic planning of future scenarios that can be applied by organizations across a range of industries. Kondratieff’s Economic Waves and Future Scenarios Planning: an approach for organizations Marcos Ferasso and Eloisio Andrey Bergamaschi Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana Despite many planning efforts and goodwill, organizations of all kinds are nevertheless subject to decline and may face the threat of financial bankruptcy. The need to study the future becomes relevant for its contribution to the strategic planning of organizations. The main point concerning planning failures is that usually only one person, or a small group of people with leading roles, drive the future success of a project, plan, or even an entire organization. Another reason to explore the future is to help people discover their own assumptions. A technology assessment must be taken into account when considering the need for investment in technology to achieve a promising outcome. To conduct such an assessment future scenarios and Kondratieff’s waves offer two approaches that fulfil the need for decision makers in choosing among technologies for investment. Nefiodow and Nefiodow (2014) stressed the need to consider long-term macroeconomic scenarios in conjunction with innovation and technology challenges, thus evidences the need for further development of this combination approach. We focus in the paper on long economic waves. The Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff sought to Thinking about the future is clearly not a new subject. Ancient Greeks sought inspiration for their doubts about the future in the Oracle of Delphi, one of humanity’s early efforts to better understand the future. Nowadays, looking for anticipatory trends and trying to understanding the pathways of technological changes, with a wide range of future possibilities, constitute practical and pressing challenges for managers. This makes them a central theme for organizations and nations who care about the way they navigate forwards. The need to reduce the uncertainties and risks, the growing economic competitiveness on national and international levels, and the need to anticipate trends, and verify new opportunities have highlighted the importance of visualizing the future and learning from it (Nefiodow & Wilenius, 2017). According to Coates (2003), knowledge generated by exploring the future has direct implications for the planning the present. Otherwise, activities that regard thinking about the future, will be seen as mere entertainment that brings ineffective results to organizations.