Weekly Roundup: AI Gaps, Change Agent Research, and New Community Programs

Is the “Digital Thread” a utopian dream or a practical reality? In this week’s episode of Change by Design, Josh Corman and Chad Jackson explore the tension between the technology that can capture everything and the engineering reality where critical context often lives in spreadsheets and hallway conversations.   We discuss why “hiding” work-in-process data might be efficient for humans but disastrous for future AI agents. If an AI stakeholder can only see the final decision and not the messy options you rejected, can it ever truly learn? Plus, big news for the Lifecycle Insights community: We are launching two major initiatives to let you drive our future research.   Key Topics Discussed:

• The Digital Thread Reality Check: Why capturing 100% of engineering data often creates more bureaucracy than value.
• New Research Findings: What we've learned about change agents and their additional IT and design/development responsibilities.
• AI’s Blind Spot: How undocumented decision-making processes create a massive gap in training data for autonomous AI agents.
• Community Announcements: Details on the new Founders Program (early platform access) and Advisory Councils (strategic quarterly input).

Learn more about the InsightEX Founders Program and Advisory Councils.