BH Innovation

博赫创新

• 批准号: 750386
• 金额: $ 0.64万
• 依托单位: BILL HARVEST LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Vouchers
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=750386
• 关键词: BH; Innovation

The Bill Harvest (BH) project seeks to build a technologically innovative system and service for those that don’t have the skills and/or the time to obtain a better deal from the utilities providers. BH harnesses the power of the collective to create a more demanding demand side in the utilities markets, where the information overload and complexity has insidiously smothered the consumer choice. The service will allow consumers to delegate their dealing with retail corporations and utilities service providers by providing a professional purchasing manager with industry pricing expertise to make the decision for them on which tariff/supplier/contract to be on – and further to manage the switching process. This is in effect creating a hybrid Mass Customization (systems that combine the low unit costs of mass production processes with the flexibility of individual customization1) and Concierge Service platform that will allow for further innovations to collective purchasing. There are a number of utilities switching services and price comparison sites online, and most of them can benefit the consumer if they get involved. And that is the crux of the matter; getting involved. The Bill Harvest project will move with current Government priorities and bridge the information overload and complexity in choosing from insurance, energy providers, communications providers (internet, landline, mobile and TV) banks and software providers to create a single point of contact. In particular for those consumers that are disenfranchised by lack of computer skills, as well as those that are time poor through family or work commitments. The Industrial Revolution of the later part of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the trade unions to balance the power of the wealthy industrialists. An advance in technology again offers the chance to organize groups with common requirements as the power of the corporations has become imbalanced - in the context of a competitive market.

Bill Harvest (BH) 项目旨在为那些没有技能和/或时间从公用事业提供商那里获得更好交易的人建立技术创新系统和服务。 BH 利用集体的力量在公用事业市场中创造了更加苛刻的需求方，而公用事业市场的信息超载和复杂性不知不觉地抑制了消费者的选择。该服务将允许消费者委托与零售公司和公用事业服务提供商打交道，通过提供具有行业定价专业知识的专业采购经理来为他们决定采用哪种关税/供应商/合同，并进一步管理转换过程。这实际上创建了一个混合大规模定制（将大规模生产流程的低单位成本与个性化定制的灵活性相结合的系统1）和礼宾服务平台，将允许集体采购的进一步创新。有许多公用事业公司在线提供转换服务和比价网站，如果他们参与其中，大多数都可以使消费者受益。这就是问题的关键；参与其中。 Bill Harvest 项目将顺应当前政府的优先事项，并消除信息过载和选择保险、能源提供商、通信提供商（互联网、固定电话、移动和电视）、银行和软件提供商时的复杂性，以创建单点联系。特别是对于那些因缺乏计算机技能而被剥夺权利的消费者，以及因家庭或工作而时间匮乏的消费者。十八世纪后期的工业革命见证了工会的崛起，以平衡富有的实业家的权力。在竞争市场的背景下，随着企业的力量变得不平衡，技术的进步再次提供了组织具有共同需求的团体的机会。