The CDS Program has been an ongoing initiative since 2019, with one iteration per year. NXP has been able to upskill 57 employees from 10 countries, applying 42 unique business use cases. A select subset of those employees converted to full or part-time data scientists. NXP's C-Suite leadership requested that IT leadership present a firm proposal in July to scale the program to serving 200+ employees/yr.  Now, participating organizations create their own embedded data science teams, with IT's Enterprise Advanced Analytics team acting as the de facto data scienceCOE. 

NXP's customers have also felt the impact.  Using customer quality as an example, before the CDS Program, many customers perceived NXP as a company out of fresh ideas and not at the desired competency to solve complex technical issues. As a result, customers had little confidence in NXP's abilities, in some cases, resulting in lost business and a descent down the customer quality ranks.  Being participants in each CDS program iteration, the Quality Organization used the data science approach and tools learned in the CDS program, which resulted in an immediate small win, further catalyzing additional investments in data science talent. In addition, the catalyzation resulted in the Quality Organization actively pursuing seven additional use cases where data science and advanced analytics are leveraged for business improvement and enhancing quality for customers.