Technology as a Tool?

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, give him a fishing rod and he'll eat for life (Unless he lives in the desert in which case he may struggle to work out what the hell you're talking about). Give me a hammer and I can turn it to a thousand uses, give a fish a hammer and he'll struggle. Give me an electroscopic nuclear resolution reader and I'll look at you funny.

The point, if you have bothered to read this far, is that a tool is only useful in context. Technology companies have been guilty in the past of a certain level of naval gazing, developing software and services.....because they can. However these self gratifying developments have spun out tools that commercially aware companies have been able to put to use to the benefit of their customers.

At Simplicity we have looked at the tools available to us, reviewed the way in which the market functions and brought the best tools to bear on revolutionising the market. Individually there is very little new about what we are doing. We are taking proven and tested services delivered every day in, say the utilities market, and channeling them through our on line secure portal to allow our customers access to more, and more relevant information. This isn't rocket science, it isn't bleeding edge it is just a way of using the technology as a tool to improve the market.

Another example is our current work with the Carbon Trust, we are aiming to allow our customers to have access to the carbon footprint calculator that the Carbon Trust have developed in liason with the UK government. This would mean that, as we install Smart Meters for all our new customers and these are linked back electronically to the secure portal, a company is able to track the carbon foot print they produce over time. I would suggest that the benefits of this are fiscally pragmatic, legislatively compliant and environmentally responsible. You can reduce your costs by having a better understanding of the spend, prove compliance with legislation as it comes along and underpin your green credentials.

And as a final example; At the core of what Simplicity at Work do is the fact that you can converge the provision of multiple services through a single bill, single contract and single point of contact whilst, through the appropriate use of technology improving your reporting and reducing your costs.

So cast your line where you will, you'll not find any fish half as clever as Simplicity!

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