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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Business Process Automation: What to Measure Before the First Workflow, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Business Process Automation: What to Measure Before the First Workflow

Business process automation (BPA) is the use of software to run repeatable, multistep business processes, such as invoice approval, new…

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AmplifAI Alternative for Operations: The Work Your Systems Never Recorded, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

AmplifAI Alternative for Operations: The Work Your Systems Never Recorded

If you run a contact center, the honest AmplifAI alternative is another contact center coaching and quality platform, and AmplifAI…

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Data Readiness for AI: What Your Operations Data Has to Show First, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Data Readiness for AI: What Your Operations Data Has to Show First

Data readiness for AI means your data is accurate, complete, accessible, and governed well enough to support a specific AI…

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Workforce Optimization Software: What WFO Suites Do, Who They Fit, and Where They Stop, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Workforce Optimization Software: What WFO Suites Do, Who They Fit, and Where They Stop

Workforce optimization (WFO) software is a suite rather than a single product. It bundles workforce management, interaction recording, quality management,…

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What an AI Readiness Assessment Costs: 2026 Prices, From Free to Enterprise, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

What an AI Readiness Assessment Costs: 2026 Prices, From Free to Enterprise

The cost of an AI readiness assessment runs from nothing to $55,000 among the providers that publish a price, and…

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Intelligent Automation Readiness: What Operations Leaders Need Before the First Bot, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Intelligent Automation Readiness: What Operations Leaders Need Before the First Bot

Intelligent automation is the combination of robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), and workflow orchestration, used to automate work…

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Capacity Planning Software for Operations: What Each Kind Plans Against, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Capacity Planning Software for Operations: What Each Kind Plans Against

Capacity planning software sets the work you expect against the people, or machines, available to do it. It comes in…

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Process Mining Software vs. Workforce Intelligence: Which One Answers the Headcount Question?, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Process Mining Software vs. Workforce Intelligence: Which One Answers the Headcount Question?

Process mining software reconstructs how a case, such as an invoice, an order, or a claim, moves through your systems,…

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Calabrio Alternative for Operations: What the Verint Merger Changes for Back-Office Teams, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Calabrio Alternative for Operations: What the Verint Merger Changes for Back-Office Teams

Type calabrio.com into a browser today and you land on verint.com. Not a co-branded page, not a partnership notice. A…

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Genesys Alternative for Operations: What a Work Item Cannot Tell You, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Genesys Alternative for Operations: What a Work Item Cannot Tell You

Most operations leaders looking for a Genesys alternative are not trying to replace Genesys. They already have it, or enterprise…

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