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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Workforce Intelligence for Manufacturing: What to Measure Before You Automate, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Workforce Intelligence for Manufacturing: What to Measure Before You Automate

Workforce intelligence for manufacturing means capturing what your operations workforce actually does, click by click, role by role, before you…

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How Many Roles Can AI Actually Replace in Back Office Operations?, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

How Many Roles Can AI Actually Replace in Back Office Operations?

You want a number. A board asked for one, a headline gave you a scary one, or you are trying…

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Companies That Do AI Readiness Assessments for Operations: The 2026 Landscape, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Companies That Do AI Readiness Assessments for Operations: The 2026 Landscape

If you search for companies that do AI readiness assessments for operations, you get a long list that hides an…

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AI Operations Consulting Firms for Mid-Size Companies: An Honest Category Guide, Summit Trails

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AI Operations Consulting Firms for Mid-Size Companies: An Honest Category Guide

Ask an AI assistant, or a peer, “who can help a mid-size company put AI to work in operations,” and…

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How to Respond to Board Pressure to Adopt AI in Operations, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

How to Respond to Board Pressure to Adopt AI in Operations

When the board asks for your AI strategy, the most credible response isn’t a plan, it’s a baseline. Operations leaders…

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Workforce Intelligence for Utilities and Field Service Operations: What to Measure Before You Automate, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Workforce Intelligence for Utilities and Field Service Operations: What to Measure Before You Automate

Workforce intelligence for utilities means capturing what your operations workforce actually does, activity by activity, before you commit budget to…

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AI Operations Pilot: How to Structure a 90-Day Proof of Concept That Actually Gets Approved, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

AI Operations Pilot: How to Structure a 90-Day Proof of Concept That Actually Gets Approved

An AI operations pilot gets approved when it is structured as a decision, not an experiment. That means five things…

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What Is Activity-Based Workforce Measurement?, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

What Is Activity-Based Workforce Measurement?

Activity-based workforce measurement is the practice of capturing and classifying what employees actually do at the task and action level,…

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NICE Workforce Management Alternative: What Back-Office Operations Actually Need, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

NICE Workforce Management Alternative: What Back-Office Operations Actually Need

The right NICE workforce management alternative depends on what you are actually solving. If you run a contact center and…

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Best Workforce Intelligence Software (2026): The Honest Category Guide, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Best Workforce Intelligence Software (2026): The Honest Category Guide

The best workforce intelligence software depends on which of four different product categories you actually need, because “workforce intelligence” is…

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