https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/ A weekly long-form post on AI adoption in real businesses. Less hype, more pragmatism. From AI policy and prompt strategy to vibe coding and the operations workflows that actually save time. en-us Wed, 20 May 2026 20:26:50 +0000 https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/186-documents.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/186-documents.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How AI read 186 licensed-operator documents in an afternoon and produced a competitive landscape analysis that would have cost six figures and three weeks. A worked case study. https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/already-using-ai-industrial.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/already-using-ai-industrial.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Industrial leaders aren't behind on AI. They're already using it through vendor software — predictive maintenance, route optimization, demand forecasting, safety monitoring. The gap is governance, not adoption. https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/messy-meeting-to-decision-memo.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/messy-meeting-to-decision-memo.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A working AI prompt that converts rough meeting notes into a clean one-page decision memo. AI organizes the thinking. Leaders make the decision. https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/right-now-someone-is-pasting.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/right-now-someone-is-pasting.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Every company needs a basic AI policy answering three questions: approved tools, off-limits data, who reviews AI work before it goes external. You don't need a perfect policy. You need a policy today. https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/samsung-lesson.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/samsung-lesson.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The 2023 Samsung trade-secret leak as the entry point to what an AI policy is actually for — not to ban AI, but to tell teams how to use it without giving away the business. Plus NIST's Govern function. https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/three-prompts-i-keep-coming-back-to.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/three-prompts-i-keep-coming-back-to.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three reusable AI prompts I use almost every working day: the summarize-and-act prompt, the pressure-test prompt, the difficult-message prompt. https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/vibe-coding-for-leaders.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/vibe-coding-for-leaders.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I don't know how to code, but I ship code every week. The quietest productivity shift happening in business — vibe coding for non-technical leaders. https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/welcome.html https://elizabethbarnes.work/writing/posts/welcome.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A weekly note from someone who didn't want a blog. Why this exists, what to expect, and what won't be here.