At the Austrian Innovation Forum in Vienna (21 to 22 October 2025), Stefan Benndorf from scaleon co-hosted a workshop with Dr. Aurelia Engelsberger from OMIND on the value case for measurable transformation success. The session looked at what makes transformation hold, on both the strategic and the human level, using AI transformation as the running example.
What the workshop covered
The workshop built the business case for transformation on two levels at once: the strategic level, meaning what makes a transformation initiative measurable, and the human level, meaning what makes it hold once leadership attention moves on. AI transformation served as the practical case throughout, since it is where most organisations currently feel the gap between ambition and measurable result most acutely.
Who it was for
The workshop was aimed at executives who want to shape transformation with purposeful leadership and make its results measurable, rather than treating transformation success as a matter of intuition.
Key takeaways
The workshop connected two things that are usually discussed separately: the business case for transformation, and the leadership behaviour that determines whether a transformation actually lands. AI transformation, used throughout as the practical example, showed both sides at once, an area with high ambition and, so far, limited measurable results.
