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 Operations Roadmap for Banks and Credit Unions: From Mandate to Measurable Impact, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

AI Operations Roadmap for Banks and Credit Unions: From Mandate to Measurable Impact

An AI operations roadmap for banks and credit unions moves through four phases: build a ground-truth baseline of what your…

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How to Build an AI Workforce Transition Plan That Survives the Boardroom, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

How to Build an AI Workforce Transition Plan That Survives the Boardroom

An AI workforce transition plan is the document that turns an AI mandate into a sequence of defensible decisions. It…

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ActivTrak Alternative for Operations Teams: What to Look for Instead, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

ActivTrak Alternative for Operations Teams: What to Look for Instead

The right ActivTrak alternative depends on what you are actually trying to do. If you want ongoing productivity monitoring, the…

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AI ROI in Operations: How to Measure It (and Actually Prove It), Summit Trails

AI ROI

AI ROI in Operations: How to Measure It (and Actually Prove It)

You can't prove AI ROI without a pre-AI baseline of the work, and almost no one has one. Here's how to measure AI ROI in operations so the...

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AI Performance Management Software for Operations: What It Does, and the Question It Skips, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

AI Performance Management Software for Operations: What It Does, and the Question It Skips

AI performance management software helps you optimize a workforce doing its work. It can't tell you what AI should do instead. Here's where it fits and the prior...

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Back Office Performance Tracking Software vs. AI-Readiness Intelligence, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Back Office Performance Tracking Software vs. AI-Readiness Intelligence

Performance tracking software answers "are people productive?" AI-readiness intelligence answers "what should AI do instead?" They look alike and solve opposite problems. Here's how to buy the right...

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How to Prioritize AI Projects in Operations, Summit Trails

AI Readiness

How to Prioritize AI Projects in Operations

Impact-versus-feasibility matrices fail because the impact numbers are guesses. Here's how to prioritize AI projects in operations using measured automation potential, not estimates.

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Workforce Intelligence vs. Employee Monitoring: What’s the Difference?, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

Workforce Intelligence vs. Employee Monitoring: What’s the Difference?

Employee monitoring watches whether workers are productive. Workforce intelligence understands what work exists so leaders can decide what AI should do. Same words, opposite purposes. Here's the difference.

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How to Know What to Automate in Operations, Summit Trails

AI Readiness

How to Know What to Automate in Operations

The criteria for what to automate are easy. Finding where those tasks actually hide in your operation is the hard part. Here's how to identify real automation candidates...

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What Is Ground Truth Workforce Data?, Summit Trails

Workforce Intelligence

What Is Ground Truth Workforce Data?

Ground truth workforce data is the individual-level record of what your people actually do, task by task. Not productivity dashboards, not the AWS ML term. Here's what it...

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