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Organizing Information to Effectively Manage the International Program

Learn how to effectively organize and manage program data for international initiatives such as tracking contacts, product information, and communication, to enhance program efficiency and evaluation. Discover benefits of data management for program stakeholders and next steps towards formulating a long-term data vision. Gather insights on data needs analysis to improve information exchange and evaluate program progress.

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Organizing Information to Effectively Manage the International Program

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  1. Organizing Information to Effectively Manage the International Program May 27, 2002 Andrew Fanara fanara.andrew@epa.gov

  2. How Should We Organize Program Information & Data? • Task at Hand • Identify and track programmatic information • Primary Types of Information • (1) Program contact information • Correspondence between contacts • (2) Mfg. Partner contact information • (3) Mfg. Product/model information

  3. Benefits of Data Management • Program contacts • Facilitate communication • Consistently apply program rules across countries • Evaluate participation & energy savings • Manufacturers • Consistent information about program rules • Greater ease submitting contact & product data • Consumers/Buyers • Current & comprehensive product list

  4. Progress Since Last Meeting • Developing a message board • Facilitate communication between country contacts • 4 to 8 weeks to implement • EPA developing new database (istar) & web site • www.energystar.gov • Partner, product models, product development process • Give Partners ability to update information directly • Formulating long term vision for managing partner & product data

  5. Next Steps • Short Term • Data needs analysis • What information does each country have? • How is information managed? • Plan for exchanging information with EPA • Long Term • Formulate & implement vision for data management

  6. Data Needs Analysis • Confirm our need to manage data • Contacts / Partners / Products & models • What’s current state of our information? • Database or spreadsheet? • Access, Oracle, Excel, static documents • Quantity and frequency of updating • How is it used? • Program evaluation • Distributed to consumers -- web site • Export/email data to EPA for review • Readable format (Access or Excel preferred) • Exchange IT contact information

  7. Goals of data needs analysis • Understand and assess the current status of the international program • Help to define our long term plan for improved management of program information

  8. Long Term Vision

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