Kronos predictive scheduling for healthcare glances the industry

September 19, 2014 - Research O207

On September 10, 2014, Kronos released the Workforce Forecast Manager, a forecasting application that uses retroactive trend analysis to identify patterns of strong and weak demand for accurate scheduling and weighting of shifts. The application is available as part of Workforce Central and Kronos is branding it as a foundational element for predictive scheduling targeted mainly at the healthcare industry. Predictive analytics are becoming popular in human capital management (HCM) but many vendors are looking past retroactive trend analysis toward real-time data analytics to accommodate sudden, unplanned changes in both demand and the workforce.