Purpose/significance the global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) is the most authoritative international knowledge management award. Currently, the holistic introduction about MAKE award is rare in the official journals, let alone the first-hand experience. Method/process Based on the analysis about annual MAKE winners and released reports, combined with years of personal participating experience in the MAKE award competition, the systematical body of knowledge about MAKE awards wasintroduced, including the basic situation, the evaluation criteria, the evaluation procedure and lessons, etc. Result/conclusionAs more and more enterprises begin to take a broad view of the world, there is no doubt that it has of great significance to those organizations who aspire to excel and participate in the international benchmarking stage.