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

AI ROI

Measuring AI ROI in Operations: How to Prove It With a Baseline

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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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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