[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38707-38709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-13982]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16AOW; Docket No. CDC-2016-0050]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on the CDC I-
Catalyst program. The I-Catalyst program is intended to help CDC
employees get their ideas out of the starting blocks and down the track
through a discovery,
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ideation, and prototyping process. The expected result is that CDC
staff will be empowered to implement innovative strategies and
solutions that create value for a set of beneficiaries.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 15, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0050 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire,
install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
CDC I-Catalyst Program--New--Office of the Associate Director for
Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The CDC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) within Office of
the Associate Director for Science (OADS) fosters innovative science
and promotes the testing and implementation of innovative ideas that
improve CDC's ability to have public health impact. To arm CDC staff
with an expanded skill-set and tools to evaluate and translate their
insights and ideas into solutions, CDC developed an experiential
innovation curriculum called I-Catalyst. The program was created with
the belief that innovation should be customer driven, be based on user
research, and is something people at all levels of an organization can
engage in.
The goal of the I-Catalyst program is to help CDC employees test
and explore their ideas through a discovery, ideation, and prototyping
process. I-Catalyst offers a process for defining problems and
developing strategies to solutions that will help improve the quality
and efficiency of innovation efforts and, as a result, overall
performance. Through the I-Catalyst Program, teams work to define and
articulate their problem space to find effective solutions.
Participating teams will go through a hypothesis-testing, scientific
method of discovery to gather important insights and identify issues
associated with their projects. Teams are forced ``out of the
classroom'' to conduct interviews, study customer/stakeholder needs,
collect feedback, and find partnership opportunities. It is expected
that participants will leave the program with the ability to evaluate
and translate their insights into solutions.
The I-Catalyst program provides CDC staff with real-world, hands-on
entrepreneurship training. Through I-Catalyst CDC staff make hypothesis
about how the world works, and then test them by getting out of the
building and talking to customers and/or stakeholders. Only
conversations with potential customers/stakeholders can provide the
facts from which hypotheses are proven or disproven about whether a
solution (whether a product, process, etc.) creates value for the
intended beneficiaries. Participants have to go out into the world and
learn by doing. The process will engage customers/stakeholders in a
process that will identify what they most value and need and what their
top barriers and pain points are, and source solutions that will have
high levels of efficacy and user acceptability.
I-Catalyst combines in-class lectures with out-of-class learning
and interactions with various customers/stakeholders. This curriculum
requires full participation from the entire team. The program guides
teams and individuals through a series of workshops that helps
participants articulate a problem, create evidence-based plan for
assessment, and conduct unstructured interviews with customers/
stakeholders. Ongoing technical assistance and support from a cadre of
experts is provided to teams as they define the problem, map their
operational model, and identify and interact with customers/
stakeholders. Each team member must commit to in-depth preparation,
attendance at the lectures and workshops, and at least 15 additional
hours per week for customer discovery.
Teams will be spending a significant amount of time in between each
of the lectures outside the class talking to customers. Each week teams
will conduct a minimum of five customer interviews with individuals who
represent different segments of customers/stakeholders whom they expect
will gain value through their solution or will benefit from value
streams that are being produced by their solution (in terms of social
and/or environmental impact). The types of customers or stakeholders
teams'
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interview will be specific to the proposed solution and context. For
example, teams may interview government employees if the solution is
intended to improve how government employees do their work. On the
other hand, teams may interview individuals who work industry and
businesses if the teams determines that they are the intended
beneficiaries.
Using a generic information collection plan, this data collection
covers qualitative information to be obtained through on-site,
unstructured interviews with individuals who represent the customers or
stakeholders CDC teams are attempting to serve or benefit. CDC
anticipates conducting I-Catalyst with three cohorts of teams over the
next two years. With each I-Catalyst cohort teams will interview their
customers/stakeholders for an average of 30 minutes. Each team will
interview approximately 50 respondents. With 8-10 teams participating
in each of the three I-Catalyst training cohorts, approximately 1,500
respondents will be interviewed. Of these, approximately 40% of
individuals will be internal CDC/ATSDR staff and 60% will be external
partners, stakeholders, or customers. Data to be collected includes
information regarding what they most value and need and their top
barriers and pain points.
CDC expects that teams participating in the I-Catalyst will be
empowered to implement innovative strategies and solutions that create
value for a set of beneficiaries. The ultimate goal of the I-Catalyst
program is to give CDC staff skills to successfully transfer knowledge
into value-based solutions that benefit society and broaden the
agency's impact.
Participation in the I-Catalyst interviews is completely voluntary.
A three-year approval is requested. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hrs.)
respondent hrs.)
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Cohort 1:
External Partners, Forms will not 500 1 1 500
Stakeholders, or be used.
Customers.
Cohort 2:
External Partners, Forms will not 500 1 1 500
Stakeholders, or be used.
Customers.
Cohort 3:
External Partners, Forms will not 500 1 1 500
Stakeholders, or be used.
Customers.
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Total................. ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,500
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2016-13982 Filed 6-13-16; 8:45 am]
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