During exploratory periods, when new opportunities are opening up, Cisco spends generously in search of radical innovations for competitive advantage; once it has identified a good number of them, it shifts to exploitation, which allows the company to cut its R&D budget while producing large numbers of valuable patents, although with narrower scope than during the exploration phase.
The exploratory campaign provided verification opportunities because the survey area included areas with known hydrocarbon accumulations that had prior seismic coverage available, as well as results from other geophysical acquisition tools, such as gravity gradiometry and magnetometry (Escalera et al. 2013).
Early childhood educators have a distinct philosophy that honors how young children naturally learn by offering them opportunities for exploratory play as learning, and they encourage a partnership among the child, parents and themselves, working together more than in any other grade level.
Additional mRSS data from 26-week unblinded administration were also available and this provided additional opportunities for exploratory analysis of AIMSPRO in cases that had previously received placebo.
"By contrast, a smaller company or startup may be more focused on the bottom line and will not provide as much opportunity for exploratory research," she says.
This exploratory trial provided an opportunity to assess the feasibility, relevance and costs of the Teeth Tales intervention as a model for child oral health promotion for culturally diverse LGAs in Australia.
Instead, those exchanges were exploratory and expository, revelatory; an opportunity for discovery; "an opportunity to forge a covenant with a suffering compatriot".
Furthermore, the participation of users of both domestic and community-scale biogas2 allows for an exploratory consideration of challenges and opportunities associated with individual and collective agency, respectively.
These exploratory actions cost them some opportunities, but leave them better off in the long run because they've gain knowledge about what they might do, even if it didn't benefit them immediately.
A cautious approach would therefore be to treat these results as exploratory and look for further opportunities to confirm them in other settings, perhaps using historical benchmarking data derived from a comparable population (matched within strata) and corrected for secular trends.
