Haier ZeroDX Journey 2025 - Case Studies, Insights and Learnings (Post 8 - The ZeroDX Awards & Winners)
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At the LAP Alliance, our mission is to connect movements like Agile Leadership, Scaling Agile, Lean-Agile Procurement, and more to advance Business Agility.
A standout example is Haier, a global pioneer that transformed from a traditional manufacturer into a network of 4,800 Micro Enterprises (MEs), each operating autonomously and co-creating value within Ecosystem Micro Communities(EMCs). This large-scale, win-win model is unlike anything else in the world.
The LAP Alliance has been collaborating with the Haier Model Institute to promote Haier’s New Economic Engine - RenDanHeYi: a management approach with no bureaucracy and consistent 20% growth.
In this blog series, we’ll share key takeaways from the Haier Zero Distance Excellence Journey 2025, and explore how AI and ecosystems are shaping the future of business.
Post 6 - The ZeroDX Awards & its Winners
In 2025, over 90 global enterprises undergoing Zero Distance transformation actively participated in the ZeroDX Awards, generating significant international resonance. To further amplify the “Zero Distance” philosophy and engage more organizations worldwide in adopting, practicing, and evolving this concept, the Business Ecosystem Alliance (BEA) and the Global RenDanHeYi Research Centers are jointly launching the “ZeroDX Journey”.
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This initiative offers participating enterprises from this year’s evaluation cycle exclusive opportunities for site visits and exchanges with Zero Distance benchmark companies, alongside collaborative development of the ZeroDX Announcement with the Zero Distance Community. The outcomes are scheduled for release at The 9th RenDanHeYi Model Leading Forum and the 2nd ZeroDX Awards in Bejing, China on Sep 19th, 2025.
👉 Learn more about the Nomination process and the 2024 Awards
The Award Winners
We are proud to announce the Haier ZeroDX Awards Winners 2025. Four of our six nominees Won!
ZeroDX Incorporated - Transformational
One of the great organizational challenges is shifting the culture and behaviour of an already existing large entity which may be highly successful. To succeed in changing individual habits, organizational systems, expectations and measures, is an act of true transformation. ise awards recognise organizations which are in the process of, or succeeded in, achieving major progressive transformation.
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ZeroDX Incorporated - Benchmark Innovators
Through their vision, values, strength and persistence some organizations successfully forge new standards for the application of progressive management. They set the standards which others follow. They are the benchmark innovators.
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ZeroDX Incorporated - Emergent Excellence
Each change in an organization is significant. It can make a difference to how people behave and how the organization performs. And, more importantly, one change can ignite another and another. An appetite for improvement, a curiosity to do things better and differently, is what marks some organizations apart from the crowd. These are organizations which demonstrate, often repeatedly, the capacity for emergent excellence.
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ZeroDX OI - The Explorer
It has established an ecosystem platform that aggregates relevant stakeholders.
® It has graduated from 1.0 "Zero Distance from Users' to 2.0 "Zero Boundaries with Ecosystem Partners'.
® Its ecosystem platform has reached a critical mass (e.g., numbers of resource providers and user interactions).
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ZeroDX OI - The Leader
• It has attracted a large number Stakeholders to its platform and witnessed exponential user
® It can create megahit pro success (with growth outpa. leading market share, or le
© Its ecosystem has continued and quickly replicate verage/competition, pitalization).
create spin-offs with new business value propositions.
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Founder and Chairman Emiritus of Haier Group Zhang Ruinin, Architect of RenDanHeYi was honestly announced by Richard Straub as
THE PERMANENT STANDING OF HONORARY FELLOW
OF THE GLOBAL PETER DRUCKER
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Our Winners & Case Studies
From our nominations were the following awarded.
foryouandyourcustomers 🇨🇭 w/ Jonathan Möller (Learn from their Ecosystem Case Study)
VkusVill 🇳🇱 w/ Nikolay Popovich (#Staytuned for their Ecosystem Case Study)
Naumen Group 🇷🇺 w/ Igor Kirichenko (#Staytuned for their Ecosystem Case Study)
SINA (Social Innovation Academy) 🇺🇬 w/ Etienne Salborn (#Staytuned for their Ecosystem Case Study)
Congratulations to all participants and winners. You’re all true pioneers!
Find out more details about our case studies submitted:
Big thank you to Ivan Smagin, my colleagues on the judging board panel Junhui (Sylvia) Guan Alidad Hamidi David Witney Emanuele Quintarelli Joost Minnaar Ross MacIntyre Saar Ben-Attar William Malek and the whole Haier Model Institute.
Conclusions
I’m always amazed when talking to like-minded leaders; regardless of the industry, region, culture, or size of the organization, they all reach the same conclusions. The connection between a strong Economic Engine, business success, and the positive impact on people / society, and the environment never fails to fascinate me. It makes me wonder—why isn’t this the standard ways-of-working everywhere?
The Haier ZeroDX Awards and the remarkable examples set by its nominees will hopefully inspire more people to adopt this mindset. After all, don’t we all prefer environments built on a win-win philosophy?
I’m really looking forward to meeting my esteemed colleagues from the judging panel, the Haier Model Institute, and all the like-minded leaders from all the nominated organizations.
Next Post - Learnings from the Haier ZeroDX Awards
Stay tuned for the upcoming posts in this series!
All Posts of this Series
Post 1 - The ZeroDX Journey 2025
Post 2 - Haier’s Founder Zhang Ruimin about why is Haier so successful?
Post 3 - The VAR Group Case Study
Post 4 - The Gummy Industries Case Study
Post 5 - The ASA Group Case Study (Staytuned - in progress)
Post 6 - Preview Haier ZeroDX Awards 2025
Post 5 - Insights from the Haier ZeroDX Awards 2025 & Ecosystem Case Studies (Staytuned - later in Sep/Oct)