Wendy Kinney

Wendy Kinney

Co-founder and operations lead at Summit Trails

Wendy Kinney is co-founder and operations lead at Summit Trails. She spent more than twenty years in workforce operations and WFO consulting across AT&T, Boeing, AIG, Nationwide, Farmers and the State of California, which is where the problem Summit Trails now solves came from. She writes about AI readiness, headcount mandates and what operations teams can actually measure before they commit to a number.

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AI Center of Excellence: Your Intake Ranks Guesses, Not Hours, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

AI Center of Excellence: Your Intake Ranks Guesses, Not Hours

An AI center of excellence (AI CoE) is the central team that sets an organization’s AI standards, runs its governance,…

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Workflow Analysis: How to See Where Your Team’s Hours Go, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Workflow Analysis: How to See Where Your Team’s Hours Go

A workflow analysis is a structured look at how work moves through a team: the steps, who does each one,…

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Process Mapping Software vs. Measured Workflow Maps: When a Drawn Map Is Not Enough, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Process Mapping Software vs. Measured Workflow Maps: When a Drawn Map Is Not Enough

Process mapping software, such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, Miro, Bizagi Modeler, or SAP Signavio, helps a team draw how a…

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Chief AI Officer: What the Role Needs From Operations Before the First Use Case Is Funded, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Chief AI Officer: What the Role Needs From Operations Before the First Use Case Is Funded

A chief AI officer (CAIO) is the executive who owns an organization’s AI strategy: which use cases get funded, how…

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Agentic AI Use Cases in Back-Office Operations: Which Work Is Ready for an Agent, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Agentic AI Use Cases in Back-Office Operations: Which Work Is Ready for an Agent

The agentic AI use cases that work in a back office have one thing in common, and it is not…

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Insurance Claims Automation: Start With What Your Claims Team Actually Does, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Insurance Claims Automation: Start With What Your Claims Team Actually Does

Insurance claims automation uses software, from rules and bots to document AI and machine learning, to take steps of a…

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Celonis Alternative for Operations: Measuring the Team Behind the Process, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Celonis Alternative for Operations: Measuring the Team Behind the Process

If your problem is a process that runs slowly, loops, or leaves the designed path, the right Celonis alternative is…

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Task Mining Software vs. Activity-Based Workforce Measurement: Where Each One Stops, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Task Mining Software vs. Activity-Based Workforce Measurement: Where Each One Stops

Task mining software records what people do on their desktops (clicks, keystrokes, screenshots) while they perform a task, then uses…

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Business Process Improvement Starts With Where the Time Actually Goes, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Business Process Improvement Starts With Where the Time Actually Goes

Business process improvement (BPI) is the structured work of finding out how a process really runs and changing it so…

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Operational Analytics for Operations Leaders: What It Shows, and What It Misses, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Operational Analytics for Operations Leaders: What It Shows, and What It Misses

Operational analytics is the use of current data from the systems that run your operation to track performance and make…

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