Organizing Information to Effectively Manage the International Program May 27, 2002 Andrew Fanara

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

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

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 – Partner, product models, product development process Give Partners ability to update information directly Formulating long term vision for managing partner & product data

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

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/ data to EPA for review –Readable format (Access or Excel preferred) Exchange IT contact information

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

Long Term Vision