The international humanitarian community, faced with increasing complexity and uncertainty concerning humanitarian issues, must incorporate humanitarian analysis into its tactical, operational, and strategic decision-making. Given the current technology, humanitarian organizations do not so much need more collection and faster dissemination of data and information, instead, they need more effective analysis tailored to enhancing decision-making.The shift to a more complex humanitarian paradigm requires new, and more collaborative and innovative analytical tradecraft practices and techniques. These include interorganizational brainstorming, crisis game simulations, alternative analysis, scenario generation, machine learning tools, and other practices.

Humanitarian analysis must anticipate and alert decision makers to emerging, potential, or neglected threats, risks, and opportunities.Humanitarian Analysis is as much an art as it is a science.Presentation is just as important as the content and derivation of the analysis being conveyed to the decisionmaker. Analysis can be presented as a written document, an oral briefing, a visual graphic, or in a group simulation/brainstorming exercise.