Highlights of the event | The 2023 China Knowledge Management Annual Conference was successfully held.

On November 9, Shenzhen, the Digital KM·2023 China Knowledge Management Annual Conference and the 13th China MIKE Award Ceremony were successfully held!

Guests attending this annual conference included: Global MIKE host, Director of the Southeast Asia Knowledge and Innovation Research Institute at Bangkok University, Vincent; Director of the Technology Innovation Research Center at Tsinghua University and Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Chen Jin; Initiator of the China MIKE Award and President of Lanling Software, Xu Xia; Expert representative of China MIKE and Executive Vice President of Lanling Research Institute, Huang Deyi, etc.

In addition, representatives from award-winning organizations such as Fudi Battery, Beijing Power Machinery Research Institute, Zhongtian Technology Group, Zhongkong Technology, Changjiang Urban, Xinhua San Talent Research Center, Huqin Technology, ZTE Smart Home, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China Unicom Research Institute, Industrial Securities, and Shanghai Junzhi Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. also attended this annual conference.

This conference was hosted by the digital host "Shushu", with both online and offline sessions. Senior executives from various companies, industry experts, knowledge managers, and digital practitioners jointly decoded the knowledge management path of China's most innovative knowledge-based organizations, explored the best paths for knowledge management construction, and diagnosed the new future of knowledge management!

Highlights Review

▶ Theme Sharing

▍ China's Knowledge Management Achievements Shine Globally
Global MIKE host, Director of the Southeast Asia Knowledge and Innovation Research Institute at Bangkok University, Vincent

I am very pleased to see that MIKE has been successfully held in mainland China for 13 consecutive years, and every year it selects outstanding enterprises to compete in the global MIKE. China has many excellent benchmark enterprises in knowledge management, and we hope that more Chinese companies can showcase their knowledge management innovation practices on the global stage.

▍ Knowledge Management Supports Sustainable Development of Organizations
Director of the Technology Innovation Research Center at Tsinghua University and Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Chen Jin

The selection of the MIKE Award can help enterprises reflect, elevating past successful knowledge management practices to a scientific and reasonable management model, helping organizations enhance their competitive capabilities. On the other hand, it can also provide a good demonstration for other enterprises in the industry.

This year, the China MIKE Award has established the Yano Innovation Award, which has also received affirmation and support from Professor Yano Ikuro himself. We hope that more and more enterprises will benefit from the selection results of the MIKE Award, allowing knowledge management to continue empowering the sustainable development of our country's enterprises.

▍ Technology Drives More Advanced KM, Promoting Organizational Innovation
Initiator of the China MIKE Award and President of Lanling Software, Xu Xia

The China MIKE Award adheres to its original intention and strives to promote the innovative development of knowledge management in China. Over the past 13 years, the scale of the MIKE Award selection has continuously expanded, covering an increasingly wide range of industries, benefiting more enterprises.

In the future, we hope that the knowledge management of organizations will become increasingly "advanced", with technologies such as AI and knowledge graphs being applied more widely in the construction of organizational knowledge management, helping organizations to shine in the intelligent era. We also hope that more organizations will compete for the MIKE Award, together promoting the development of innovative knowledge-based organizations in China.

▍ In the Era of Large Models, Knowledge Management Accelerates Organizational Growth
Expert representative of China MIKE and Executive Dean of Lanling Research Institute, Huang Deyi

In the era of large models, the modes of knowledge production, collaboration, processing, and consumption have changed, and knowledge AI tools have become inclusive tools. In this context, how can knowledge management create value for organizational growth?

Lanling has summarized the "3*3 model" of knowledge management, combining new knowledge assistants, intelligent collection, knowledge graphs, and other intelligent applications, assisting enterprises in innovation, efficiency improvement, and cost reduction from three dimensions: individual, business, and organization: by automating experiential knowledge, helping to enhance employee growth speed; by creating new productivity of knowledge to enhance business expansion speed; and by advancing from knowledge accumulation to knowledge capability discovery, achieving an increase in competitive iteration speed.

▍ Knowledge Management Path of a Large Group of Ten Thousand People
Deputy Chief Engineer and Chief Knowledge Officer of Zhongtian Technology Group, Lan Yanrui

Zhongtian Technology is one of the top 500 enterprises in China, a national key high-tech enterprise, and a recipient of the National Quality Award and the China Industrial Award. It has now formed a specialized and innovative deep cultivation model in new energy, ocean, power grid, communication, and industrial internet, with more than 80 subsidiaries, over 16,000 employees, and products exported to 160 countries and regions, achieving full coverage of the "Belt and Road".

Zhongtian Technology builds a knowledge system and platform from a high starting point and full coverage, establishing an overall knowledge management strategy of "digitalization of knowledge management, doing things right the first time", constructing a 135 knowledge management framework of "one platform, three major supports, five scenarios", forming a good knowledge sharing atmosphere through leadership modeling, online training, periodic activities, and thematic activities, establishing a sound management and incentive system, and building an integrated information knowledge management system that runs through business systems and databases, implementing "offline knowledge online", focusing on business processes, difficulties, pain points, and problem points, proposing and promoting innovative methods such as business knowledge portals, Zhongtian product encyclopedias, after-action reviews (AAR), excellent practice promotion, common technology shelves, and intellectual property banks, comprehensively collecting, solidifying, 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 innovative achievements.

▍ Knowledge Native Enterprises, Fusing Organizational Innovation Power
Vice President of Data Asset Management Department and Knowledge Management Head of Zhongkong Technology, Mao Junjie

As a leading domestic supplier of overall solutions for intelligent manufacturing in process industries established for 30 years, Zhongkong Technology adheres to the vision and mission of "making industry smarter and life easier", and has never stopped innovating from products to business to strategy. With strong strategic management, talent management, multi-party communication mechanisms, and ecological brand building, Zhongkong Technology is building an innovative organization.

As a "knowledge native enterprise", Zhongkong Technology has created a company-level knowledge management platform (KMS) during its digital transformation process, promoting "knowledge sedimentation, knowledge sharing, knowledge application, and knowledge empowerment", and continuously exploring the effective combination of new technologies and knowledge management, using cutting-edge technologies such as AI algorithms to mine tacit knowledge, promote the explicitization and valorization of knowledge, and further enhance the company's overall competitive and operational capabilities.

▍ Knowledge Management Supports Technological Innovation in Enterprises
Director of Policy and Information Research Center at China Unicom Research Institute, Wu Gang

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

China Unicom Research Institute integrates knowledge management innovation into enterprise development, actively builds a learning organization, promotes the growth of talent teams, and actively constructs an internal R&D system and internal and external cooperation network to facilitate the internal and external flow of knowledge. At the same time, it innovates the R&D system and management system, strengthens industry-university-research collaboration, creates an open knowledge management platform, and enhances intelligent information operation service capabilities. From strategic, management, institutional, cultural, and process aspects, a comprehensive knowledge innovation system has been built, continuously injecting new vitality into the high-quality development of enterprises.

▶ Roundtable Forum

▍ How Knowledge Management Can Improve Quality, Reduce Costs, and Increase Efficiency for Enterprises

This forum was hosted by Liu Lanlan, manager of the Intellectual Property Management Department of Yangtze River Urban, with representatives from MIKE award-winning organizations including Cui Haixing, deputy director of the Digital Transformation Center of Fudi Battery, Hou Lina, deputy director of the Office of Beijing Institute of Power Machinery, Su Lingjie, senior manager of Technology Knowledge and Management at Huqin Technology, and Du Yang, knowledge engineer at Junzhi Strategic Consulting, discussing "In the era of digital intelligence, how knowledge management can improve quality, reduce costs, and increase efficiency for enterprises."

Forum guests unanimously agreed that the development of new technologies such as AI and knowledge graphs provides more new possibilities for organizational knowledge management construction. Integrating new technologies into knowledge management to promote business quality and efficiency is the direction that everyone is working towards and practicing.

Award Ceremony

The 13th China MIKE (Most Innovative Knowledge-Based Organization) Award Ceremony was grandly held.

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

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

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

Thus, the 2023 China Knowledge Management Annual Conference and the 13th China MIKE Award Ceremony concluded successfully.

In the era of AI large models, knowledge management faces both challenges and opportunities. The China MIKE organizing committee will maintain its original intention and work with organizations from various industries to continue the excellent experience of past knowledge management and jointly promote the innovative development of knowledge management in China!