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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

When Vision Becomes Legacy: Generational Change in Family Businesses

Johanna Heise , Rudi Bauer

Generational shifts don't have to erase your company's history. Discover how family businesses can use legacy revenue and in-person leadership to fuel future-proof digital transformation.

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#1 about 4 min

Balancing tradition and innovation in a family publishing business

Company values provide a stable foundation for embracing future disruption without destroying older frameworks.

#2 about 4 min

Navigating cultural friction while modernizing legacy print media products

Profitable legacy brands supply the capital necessary to transform production cycles from print to digital media.

#3 about 4 min

Managing organizational change through in-person collaboration and leadership visibility

Direct leadership presence and localized in-office collaboration enable smoother strategic transitions through constantly changing market conditions.

#4 about 5 min

Preserving institutional knowledge amid demographic shifts and workforce retirement

Standardizing knowledge transfer channels mitigates the severe risk of losing specialized expertise as senior technical staff retires.

#5 about 4 min

Navigating existential business model threats from generative artificial intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence undermines traditional web traffic models by answering queries directly instead of routing users to publisher platforms.

#6 about 6 min

Maintaining journalistic integrity and brand trust against artificial intelligence

A strict reliance on human-centered reporting and factual accuracy differentiates trusted publications from unverified automated online content.

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Navigating generational shifts and technology in recruitment

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Navigating challenges in corporate innovation and transformation

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Navigating continuous technology shifts and paradigm changes

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2:18 min

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