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Workforce Management:Trends and Challenges
What is WFM?
Business value of WFM?
Current Trends and Challenges
WFM – Workforce Management
Workforce management (WFM) is an integrated set of processes that an organization uses to optimize the productivity of its employees
Workforce Planning • Right person• Right skill• Right place • Right time
What is WFM?
Forecast demand
Efficiently manage personnel
Automatic scheduling
Produce clear and informative reports
What is WFM?
Business Value of WFM?
Be prepared for the customer
• Reliable forecasts
• Knowing your customers
• Integrations
Business Value of WFM?
Improve operational efficiency
• Multi-channel & multi-skill
• Optimal scheduling
• Communicate
• Reporting
Business Value of WFM?
Create engaged employees
• Transparency
• Flexibility
• Motivation
Business Value of WFM?
”I am involved in my own schedule, and that gives me
flexibility in everyday life”
Reduce staff turnover
• Lifestyle scheduling
• Preferences
• Shift trades
• Time-off requests
Business Value of WFM?
Reduce administration
• Automatic scheduling
• Self-service
• Synchronization
Business Value of WFM?
Improve speed of answer and service levels
• Forecast accuracy
• Intra-day monitoring
• Communicate the cost
Business Value of WFM?
50% of customers are willing to switch to a different business as a
result of poor customer service
Enhance performance
• Tracking adherence
• Real time feedback
• Quality Assurance
Business Value of WFM?
Quick Poll:How many of you are using a WFM
software in your business?
Workforce Engagement (WFE)
• Work life balance
Current Trends and Challenges
Workforce Engagement (WFE)
• Work life balance
• Motivation
Current Trends and Challenges
Workforce Engagement (WFE)
• Work life balance
• Motivation
• Technology
Current Trends and Challenges
How do you engage your employees?
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Current Trends and Challenges
Gartner:Before 2020, customers will
manage 85% of their relationship with the enterprise without
interacting with a human
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• What can AI do?
o Identify patterns in hours (rather than weeks)
o Quickly give you conclusion about those patterns
o Automatically make changes based on those conclusions
o Learn from past changes
Current Trends and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• AI for predictive forecasting
Current Trends and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• AI for predictive forecasting
• AI for scheduling
Current Trends and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• AI for predictive forecasting
• AI for scheduling
• AI deployment will replace FAQs
Current Trends and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• AI for predictive forecasting
• AI for scheduling
• AI deployment will replace FAQs
• Chatbots
Current Trends and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Trusting AI?
• Knowing what areas it can help
• What do you need to approve?
Current Trends and Challenges
What would you worry about?
What is WFM?
Business value of WFM?
Current Trends and Challenges?
WFM – Summary
Thank you!
Contact: Anna Wannberg JönssonE-mail: [email protected]: +46 31 340 25 42