We strongly recommend that you schedule an office hours appointment before applying. The vast majority of successful applicants are ones that attend at least 1 office hours session before submission to ensure a good fit.
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NOTE: Applicants selected to be moved to the next stage must attend a 60-minute post-submission 1:1 deep-dive meeting that will be held the second half of February. Failure to attend this meeting may affect your progression to the Selection Committee.
Your name
Email
Briefly describe your title and role
Department
How did you hear about this DIF cohort? Check all that apply.
If "Other," please explain.
Which service offering does your project fall under?
Please provide a shortened 1-sentence summary of your problem statement.
Describe your challenge, the related service or business process, and the way you hope the DIF engagement will help address it.
Why is this project important to your organization? To the public? To your current business processes?
If our DIF engagement is successful, how would your service or business process change? How significant would this change be? Specify impact on individual work (i.e., who will have to work differently), as well as the department overall.
What data would be needed for this project? Whose data is it? What are potential barriers to access?
Based on your project’s scope, data may not be needed for your project–or you may not have the data yet. If you believe this is true, enter “N/A” and briefly explain
Are you the project champion? That is, would you be the daily contact for ODI and serve as the day-to-day project owner–including attending weekly status updates?
If "No," please provide the name, title, and email of the project champion.