Transformation is hard to define. Its most ardent disciples often speak in nebulous generalities about the future. Current systems get minimal respect. Evolutionary progress is not always recognized, even when there is a lot of it. Today's precision strike capability, for example, is an enormous leap from what was possible 10 years ago, but you'd never know it from reading the newspaper commentaries.
Some theoreticians say transformation is about ideas and concepts, and up to a point, it is.
But it is also financial. In the end, it comes down to which new initiatives will be started, which old programs will survive, and which ones will be canceled or curtailed. Congress will approach it that way, even if the Pentagon doesn't. Any move to reduce the role of big deck carriers, for example, will encounter fierce resistance in the Senate. If transformation deteriorates to a budget competition, as happened in the Quadrennial Defense Review and the National Defense Panel review, strange things can happen.