Annual heavyweight! The 2023 China MIKE Awards list is out.

The 13th China MIKE (Most Innovative Knowledge Organization in Mainland China) Award officially launched in March 2023, with hundreds of outstanding enterprises from various industries such as construction, energy, manufacturing, finance, and technology actively participating in the award application. After preliminary screening and the first round of evaluation by the expert jury, the shortlisted organizations entered the final competition.

On August 31, 2023, the expert review meeting for the China MIKE Award was held in Shenzhen, chaired by Chen Jin, Director of the Technology Innovation Research Center at Tsinghua University and Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, along with Xu Xia, President of Lanling Software, and scholars from universities across the country, as well as knowledge management experts from various industries, forming the jury to conduct the final evaluation of the shortlisted organizations. After on-site scoring by the jury and comprehensive statistics by the MIKE organizing committee, the 2023 China MIKE Award list was released!

1. 2023 China MIKE Review Meeting On-Site

At the beginning of the review meeting, Chen Jin, Director of the Technology Innovation Research Center at Tsinghua University and Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, delivered a speech as the representative of the organizer.

Professor Chen Jin stated that the China MIKE (Most Innovative Knowledge Organization) Award, jointly organized by the Technology Innovation Research Center of Tsinghua University and Lanling Software, is a leading award in the field of knowledge management and innovation management. Its establishment is of great significance for promoting the development concept of organizational management in our country. This year, the MIKE Award has added a new award - the Yano Innovation Award, aiming to select organizations that better align with the knowledge management paradigm that integrates tacit and explicit knowledge as proposed by Ikujiro Nonaka.

It is hoped that the MIKE Award will continue to maintain its original characteristics, and in the context of knowledge management being increasingly driven by the digital economy, more outstanding organizations that utilize advanced digital technologies to drive knowledge management and effectively combine knowledge management with artificial intelligence, big data, etc., will emerge.

At the review meeting, the shortlisted organizations showcased their innovative capabilities, products, services, and solutions in knowledge management.

The expert jury conducted professional, fair, and rigorous evaluations of the reports from the shortlisted organizations based on the eight new standards and innovation performance indicators for continuously innovative knowledge organizations in the MIKE Award, and also provided professional suggestions and opinions on the construction of the shortlisted organizations in the fields of knowledge management and innovation management.

After intense competition, the final evaluation results were announced.

1. Fudi Battery Co., Ltd., Beijing Power Machinery Research Institute, Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Co., Ltd., and Zhejiang Zhongkong Technology Co., Ltd. won the 2023 China MIKE Excellence Award and will be recommended to compete for the global MIKE Award.

2. Fudi Battery Co., Ltd. won the 2023 China MIKE Yano Innovation Award,
Zhejiang Zhongkong Technology Co., Ltd. won the 2023 China MIKE Best Technology Innovation Award,
Nanjing Yangtze River Urban Architectural Design Co., Ltd. won the 2023 China MIKE Best Knowledge Operation Award.

3. H3C Group H3C Talent Research Center, Huqin Technology Co., Ltd., ZTE Communications Smart Home R&D and Quality Capability Center, China State Construction Engineering Corporation Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd., China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. Research Institute, Industrial Securities Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Junzhi Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. won the 2023 China MIKE Award.
     

2. Summary and Reflections from Award-Winning Organizations of the 2023 China MIKE Excellence Award and Special Excellence Awards

Fudi Battery Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Excellence Award
China MIKE Yano Innovation Award

Fudi Battery aims to "meet people's aspirations for a better life through technological innovation," focusing on the new energy industry and deeply cultivating the battery field for over twenty years. It has the capability of 100% independent research and development, design, and production of batteries, creating a highly competitive industrial cluster and a complete battery industry ecosystem.

Technological innovation is in Fudi's DNA, with 7% of annual sales revenue invested in R&D, encouraging knowledge sharing and collaborative innovation, and building a comprehensive talent development pathway system. Adhering to the development concept of "technology as king, innovation as fundamental," Fudi has created an innovative culture of co-construction, sharing, innovation, and accumulation, establishing a foundational data center for product R&D, a business data center, a system integration center, and a knowledge management platform, providing timely, accurate, and traceable information to achieve the accumulation, application, and appreciation of R&D knowledge. By transforming business data into knowledge, empowering employees with knowledge, and applying knowledge to business, a closed-loop management of people, business, and knowledge is formed.

Cui Haixing, Deputy Director of the Digital Transformation Center of Fudi Battery Co., Ltd.:Thank you to the MIKE Award for providing a learning and exchange opportunity for innovative knowledge organizations in Mainland China. The process of participating in the MIKE Award has also been an important practice for us in knowledge management and innovation management, leading to a deeper understanding of the concepts and values of knowledge management. In the future, we will iterate our knowledge management platform into a knowledge empowerment platform, improve Fudi Battery's innovation empowerment system, and enhance the company's core competitiveness.

Beijing Power Machinery Research Institute
China MIKE Excellence Award

Beijing Power Machinery Research Institute has always adhered to innovation leadership, deeply implemented the digital aerospace strategy, continuously carried out military industry-specific knowledge management practice exploration, and created a knowledge-driven, innovation-leading military research institute characterized by "development, sharing, openness, responsibility, and integration," continuously strengthening the supporting role of the knowledge management system and innovation-driven strategy for high-quality development, effectively promoting the completion and industrialization of national major special projects/engineering and the effective practice of military-civilian integration development, gradually exploring an organizational construction model that aligns with the high-quality development of military enterprises.

Hou Lina, Deputy Director of the Office of Beijing Power Machinery Research Institute: Thank you to the MIKE Award for providing such an open, shared, and integrated platform, offering a rare learning and exchange opportunity for enterprises in various industries and fields in Mainland China that value innovation and knowledge. This is especially precious for our relatively closed military enterprises. Through listening and learning during the defense process, we have gained a lot. In the future, we will continue to apply the power of knowledge and innovation more deeply in more business areas and scenarios, building a new situation of knowledge-driven and comprehensive empowerment for enterprises, and creating a new pattern of high-quality development for military research institutes.

Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Excellence Award

Zhongtian Technology has established a knowledge system and platform with a high starting point and full coverage, defining the overall strategy of knowledge management as "digital knowledge management, doing things right the first time," and constructing a 135 knowledge management framework of "one platform, three supports, and five scenarios," forming a good knowledge analysis atmosphere through leadership modeling, online training, periodic activities, and special activities. It has established a sound management and incentive system, building an integrated information knowledge management system that spans business systems and databases, implementing "offline knowledge online," focusing on business processes, difficulties, pain points, and problem areas, proposing and promoting innovative methods such as business knowledge portals, Zhongtian product encyclopedias, after-action reviews (AAR), excellent practice promotion, and common technology shelves, comprehensively collecting, accumulating, sharing, and updating knowledge.

Currently, knowledge innovation has been integrated into every aspect of the business, forming a sustainable development model characterized by a strong knowledge atmosphere, good business development, rapid personnel growth, and significant innovation results.

Xie Shuhong, Chief Engineer of Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Co., Ltd.Thank you to the MIKE Award for providing opportunities for communication and learning for the most innovative companies in the field of knowledge management. Participating in the MIKE Award is also a good external review opportunity for Zhongtian Technology in terms of innovation and knowledge management. The review is aimed at improvement and enhancement, and we will learn from excellent experiences and practices to further enhance the contextualization and intelligence of knowledge, strengthen the connections between knowledge and people, knowledge and business, and knowledge and knowledge, making knowledge management a core competitiveness of Zhongtian Technology.

Zhejiang Zhongkong Technology Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Excellence Award
China MIKE Best Technological Innovation Award

As a company established for 30 years with rich technology and experience in the field of industrial automation, Zhongkong adheres to the vision and mission of "making industry smarter and life easier". From products to business to strategy, we have never stopped innovating. Zhongkong focuses on talent management and systematic institutional construction internally, and pays attention to cooperation with shareholders, customers, suppliers, and external organizations externally. Through internal and external integration, we achieve win-win results. Zhongkong is currently fully promoting digital transformation, building various information systems and knowledge management systems, consolidating knowledge and experience, and disseminating them more effectively. We aim to achieve "knowledge sedimentation, knowledge sharing, knowledge application, and knowledge empowerment" for the enterprise, and through the application of cutting-edge technologies such as AI algorithms, we will explore implicit knowledge, promote the explicitness and value of knowledge, allowing users to access the knowledge they want at any time and place, further enhancing the company's overall competitiveness and operational capabilities.

Mao Junjie, Head of Data Asset Management Department of Zhejiang Zhongkong Technology Co., Ltd.Since its establishment 30 years ago, Zhongkong has always been a knowledge-based enterprise that insists on independent innovation. We thank the MIKE Award for providing a platform for learning, communication, and growth for many innovative enterprises in mainland China. Through this platform, we are able to share Zhongkong's efforts and practices in knowledge innovation and organizational evolution, and also see our shortcomings, continuously learning from excellent benchmarks at home and abroad to enhance our core competitiveness, better responding to the new knowledge era, information era, and intelligent era.

Nanjing Yangtze River Urban Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Best Knowledge Operation Award

Innovation is the soul and driving force of continuous development for Yangtze River Urban. Innovation is not just a task, but is gradually becoming the eternal mission of Yangtze River Urban and all employees.

The company takes innovation as the core driving force, using a "dual innovation + dual integration" dual-wheel drive for enterprise development, adhering to the corporate mission of "designing to serve society, leading development through innovation", building a knowledge management framework, gathering business data, and consolidating business knowledge. With a "flexible, efficient, visual, and flat" collaborative structure of a virtual digital platform, we achieve the organic integration and sharing of knowledge design, management, and knowledge, supporting the efficient matching of the company's "resources, business, and technology", exploring new paths for business development and providing new momentum!

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the company focuses on the research and development of technologies in three major areas: green buildings, prefabricated buildings, and smart buildings, integrating greening, industrialization, and digitalization with traditional engineering design to form a comprehensive, technology-oriented enterprise with distinct technological advantages and product characteristics.

Liu Lanlan, Manager of Intellectual Property Management Department of Yangtze River UrbanThank you to the organizers of the MIKE Award for providing a platform for the most innovative enterprises in mainland China to communicate and learn from each other. Through the application for the MIKE Award, we received professional guidance from the judges, which provided a comprehensive review of the company's knowledge management. We will take this selection as a new starting point, continue to innovate, improve knowledge service work, assist in architectural innovation and design innovation, explore new paths for the company's production business, and add new momentum to management.

III. Summary and Remarks of the Awarded Organizations of the 2023 China MIKE Award

H3C Group H3C Talent Research Center
China MIKE Award

In the AIGC era, H3C Group is fully committed to enhancing the digital level of enterprises and the knowledge capability level of employees, aiming to become a global leading provider of digital solutions. We value the application of digital technology, promoting projects such as knowledge management platforms, knowledge bases, and digital training, optimizing and integrating enterprise knowledge resources, and driving the organization towards collaboration, innovation, and digital transformation. We have established a dedicated knowledge management team to standardize, update, and classify knowledge, aiming to achieve intelligent operation of knowledge management and high-quality learning experiences. By deeply integrating digital capabilities with business and application scenarios, we have accelerated the pace of digital transformation, thereby improving the overall operational efficiency and quality of the enterprise. With the development of AIGC, we will continue to strengthen the application of digital technology, further enhance digital capabilities, and fully leverage the important role of knowledge management and digital transformation in enterprises to achieve continuous excellence in performance and returns.

Wang Yingni, Manager of Training Experience Department of H3C Talent Research CenterKnowledge is the source of power, and information is the river that allows it to flow. It is a great honor to use the China MIKE platform, a major platform in the field of knowledge management, to share the achievements and some practical experiences of H3C Group in enterprise knowledge management with experts and scholars from various industries, especially the importance of how enterprises effectively utilize knowledge resources in the digital age, and how enterprises use new digital technologies and methods to promote the further development of knowledge management.

Huaqin Technology Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Award

As a smart hardware platform enterprise, Huaqin has always attached great importance to innovation and knowledge accumulation. In terms of innovation, the company is committed to building a dual-driven innovation development system of market and technology. In terms of knowledge management, after each project is completed, the project team promptly summarizes experiences and consolidates knowledge. To ensure effective knowledge sedimentation and dissemination, the company has established a dedicated knowledge management team responsible for organizational management.

By learning from excellent practices in the industry and internet concepts, and combining its own needs, Huaqin has built an easy-to-use knowledge management platform, which includes functions such as a multi-dimensional knowledge classification system, knowledge albums, newcomer areas, and intelligent recommendations. Combined with personalized operational activities, it effectively promotes the cycle of knowledge from production to application. In the future, Huaqin will continue to focus on advanced concepts and technologies in knowledge management, deeply promote knowledge management work, and enable knowledge to continuously empower employee growth and the innovative development of diverse businesses.

Su Lingjie, Head of Technology and Knowledge Management of Huaqin Technology Co., Ltd.Thank you to the MIKE organizers for providing our company with a platform for mutual communication and learning. Participating in MIKE is an opportunity to showcase Huaqin's capabilities in organizational innovation and knowledge management, as well as to learn from industry experts. We will take this as a new starting point to further enhance our knowledge management level, continuously deepen the cycle of knowledge from production to application, and support business quality improvement and organizational innovation development.

ZTE Communications Intelligent Home R&D and Quality Capability Center
China MIKE Award

As a global leader in high-tech enterprises, ZTE Corporation adheres to the principle that quality is the cornerstone of the company's survival and development while continuously innovating technology. Upholding the company's development philosophy of "solid foundation and innovative growth, with quality growth" and the "intelligent simplicity" quality strategy, the Smart Home R&D and Quality Capability Center is committed to the innovative transformation of "culture-architecture-process-practice," strategically focusing on customer satisfaction, building an innovative cultural atmosphere, and integrating quality innovation into product development; effectively constructing a growth-oriented empowerment structure for R&D employees, a quality empowerment organization for internal and external connections, a digital growth and operational knowledge structure, and a cloud R&D and intelligent operation experience interaction structure; with strategic guidance, cultural support, and structural backing, continuously carrying out digital practices of demand value flow and R&D engineering flow, driving improvements in product quality and innovation performance. By building a digital knowledge innovation-oriented R&D organization, we effectively support the Smart Home product's customer satisfaction to maintain the top position and ensure continuous quality growth in market scale!

Kong Jianhua, Head of Smart Home R&D at ZTE CorporationThank you to the MIKE Award for providing an opportunity for all organizations dedicated to building innovative knowledge organizations to communicate with each other, and for allowing ZTE Corporation's Smart Home R&D and Quality Capability Center to present a comprehensive display of innovation in related knowledge operations. In the future, we will continue to innovate and transform around "culture-architecture-process-practice," continuously enhancing the digital and intelligent level of the R&D organization to achieve quality growth in Smart Home products.

China State Construction Engineering Corporation Third Bureau First Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Award

China State Construction Engineering Corporation Third Bureau First Company has always adhered to the talent concept of "based on those who strive for excellence," pursuing outstanding talents, upholding the character of "daring to be the first in the world, always striving for the top," and the concept of high-quality development, leading strategically, driving innovation, and promoting the construction of a knowledge management system. The entire company works together, starting from empowering the business, establishing a cyclical mechanism for the extraction, sedimentation, sharing, application, and innovation of knowledge, creating features such as a distinctive knowledge map, scenario-based portal, project knowledge station, and knowledge innovation, building the core competitiveness of the enterprise, aiming for scenario-based and intelligent development to create an industry-leading knowledge think tank, fostering a learning organization atmosphere, continuously stimulating talent capabilities, vitality, and creativity, striving to become a world-class investment and construction group with the most value creation.

Ren Xianhua, Assistant General Manager and Head of Human Resources Department of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Third Bureau First Company:Thank you to the MIKE Award for providing a platform for organizations deeply engaged in knowledge management globally to exchange and learn, allowing us the opportunity to showcase the innovative concepts and knowledge management achievements of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Third Bureau First Company. In the future, we will continue to upgrade the knowledge management platform, promote the knowledge management concept, and continuously empower the improvement of corporate performance, lean construction capabilities, information technology levels, and talent effectiveness, creating an industry-leading knowledge management system.

China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. Research Institute
China MIKE Award

As a high-end think tank for management decision-making and production operations of China Unicom Group, the Research Institute focuses on the positioning of "strategic decision-making advisor, technology development leader, and industry development promoter," forming a comprehensive development pattern aimed at industries, sectors, and enterprises as a core component of the group's R&D and innovation system.

The Unicom Research Institute integrates knowledge management innovation into corporate development, actively building a learning organization, promoting the growth of talent teams, and constructing an internal R&D system and internal-external cooperation network to facilitate the internal and external flow of knowledge. At the same time, it innovates the R&D and management systems, strengthens industry-university-research collaboration, and builds an open knowledge management platform to enhance intelligent information operation service capabilities. From strategic, management, system, culture, and process perspectives, it has built a comprehensive knowledge innovation system, continuously injecting new vitality into the high-quality development of the enterprise.

Wu Gang, Director of the Policy and Information Research Center of China Unicom Research InstituteThank you to the MIKE Award for providing this opportunity for exchange and learning. Through this competition, we have learned about excellent practices and valuable experiences in knowledge management from enterprises in different fields, which has been very rewarding and has pointed us in the right direction for better knowledge management work. In the future, China Unicom Research Institute will explore knowledge management practices and operations more actively, maximizing the advantages and value of knowledge management, and transforming the research institute into a more innovative learning organization in the telecommunications industry.

Industrial Securities Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Award

Since its establishment, Industrial Securities has always adhered to the corporate mission of "pursuing excellence and common prosperity," integrating the spirit of innovation into its DNA. It has launched the "Three Connections Project" for group knowledge management operations, focusing on the four major links of knowledge collection, processing, output, and operation, aiming for "knowledge and processes are interconnected everywhere, knowledge and business are interconnected for everyone, and knowledge and users are interconnected at all times."

The "Three Connections Project" aims to build a new model of knowledge digital service throughout the employee lifecycle that enhances employee value and creates customer value, with the group knowledge base management system as the core support, and the internal knowledge robot "Xingyizhi" and external customer service robot "Jizhimao" as intelligent outputs, establishing a "centralized, penetrating, and shared" group knowledge management operation network, achieving knowledge maintenance co-construction and knowledge result sharing, effectively empowering various business sectors of the group to reach new heights, and deeply implementing the strategic goal of "building a first-class securities financial group."

Chen Ying, Project Leader of the Digital Construction Project of the Customer Service Center of Industrial Securities GroupThank you to the MIKE Award for providing a platform for innovative enterprises in the field of knowledge management to learn from each other. The process of participating in the MIKE Award is a great opportunity for Industrial Securities to review its knowledge management practices. It also allows us to learn more about the knowledge management and innovation management practices of benchmark enterprises. Industrial Securities will use the group knowledge management operation "Three Connections Project" as a foundation, supported by comprehensive talent cultivation, to fully promote the construction of a first-class securities financial group.

Shanghai Junzhi Enterprise Management Co., Ltd.
China MIKE Award

Innovation is the soul of an enterprise and the key to maintaining sustainable development and vitality. Knowledge is the cornerstone and core competitiveness of an enterprise, an important resource for driving innovation and improving efficiency.

As a knowledge-intensive organization, Junzhi always centers on innovation, actively building a company platform that provides services for knowledge workers, helping employees leverage their strengths and realize their value. Through knowledge management and continuous innovation, Junzhi is able to fully capitalize on knowledge. When employees provide strategic consulting services to client enterprises, they demonstrate their primary value, and when client enterprises achieve strategic results from the implementation of strategies, they showcase their deeper and more influential value. Junzhi will innovate together with more client enterprises, helping them stand out in fierce market competition and become billion-level enterprises. Therefore, knowledge and innovation are key elements in helping Junzhi fulfill its mission of "reshaping Chinese business civilization."

Du Yang, Knowledge Engineer at Junzhi Strategic ConsultingThe MIKE Award provides enterprises with an opportunity to test their innovation and knowledge management capabilities, as well as a reference direction for enhancing these two capabilities. During the evaluation process, Junzhi continuously examines its current situation, and we will refer to the suggestions of expert teachers and the excellent practices of peers to continuously improve the organizational knowledge domain, allowing knowledge to flow as needed within the enterprise.