BH Innovation

Bill Harvest （BH）项目旨在为那些没有技能和/或没有时间从公用事业供应商那里获得更好交易的人建立一个技术创新系统和服务。BH利用集体的力量，在公用事业市场创造了一个更苛刻的需求方，在这个市场上，信息过载和复杂性不知不觉地扼杀了消费者的选择。该服务将允许消费者委托他们与零售公司和公用事业服务提供商进行交易，通过提供具有行业定价专业知识的专业采购经理，为他们决定采用哪种电价/供应商/合同，并进一步管理转换过程。这实际上创造了一种混合的大规模定制（将大规模生产过程的低单位成本与个人定制的灵活性相结合的系统）和礼宾服务平台，这将允许进一步创新集体采购。网上有许多公用事业转换服务和价格比较网站，如果他们参与其中，大多数都能使消费者受益。这就是问题的关键；参与。Bill Harvest项目将配合当前政府的优先事项，并在选择保险、能源供应商、通信提供商（互联网、固定电话、移动电话和电视）、银行和软件提供商时，消除信息过载和复杂性，创建一个单一的联系点。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，以及那些因家庭或工作承诺而时间贫乏的消费者。18世纪后半叶的工业革命见证了工会的兴起，以平衡富有的实业家的权力。在竞争市场的背景下，随着公司的力量变得不平衡，技术的进步再次提供了组织具有共同需求的团体的机会。

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.