We’re happy to share that SINA has been nominated again for the 2025 ZeroDX (ZeroDistance Excellence) Awards, a global recognition for organizations that remove the “distance” between teams, operations and the people they serve. The awards are led by the Business Ecosystem Alliance in partnership with the Haier Model Institute and Gary Hamel’s Management Lab, and they spotlight organizations that are reshaping management for real user value.
All nominees have been invited to convene in Beijing, China from 18–20 September, and the winners will be announced on 19 September during the RenDanHeYi Model Leading Forum.
This comes after last year’s recognition, when SINA was named a ZeroDX 2024 winner in the “Benchmark Innovators” category—alongside pioneers such as Buurtzorg and Hoxby—for demonstrating a decentralized, user-proximate model from the start. Media coverage framed the awards as a fresh signal of organizational innovation worldwide (see Forbes article here).
What is RenDanHeYi—and why this nomination matters
RenDanHeYi is Haier’s management philosophy that aligns everyone around creating value for the end user and organizes work in autonomous micro-enterprises with distributed authority. The ZeroDX assessment draws on these principles to recognize organizations that learn rapidly from users, push decision-making to the front line, and continually evolve.
This is exactly how SINA operates. Each SINA community is locally owned and self-managed as a “symbiotic enterprise.” Scholars step into real operational roles, gain the skills and experience to launch ventures, and build social enterprises that solve challenges they know first-hand. We call the underlying culture “freesponsibility,” where freedom to act grows together with responsibility for outcomes.
We’re honored by the nomination and, more importantly, energized to keep placing responsibility—and the means to act—into the hands of those closest to the challenges.