"tapping the potential" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation in which someone or something is being utilized or explored to its fullest extent. For example, you could say, "The company is tapping the potential of its new technology to increase sales."
Tapping the potential of south-south economic relations requires more than passive reliance on market forces and private initiative.
In a telephone conversation held at the request of the US, the ministry said, the two men also discussed tapping the potential of other countries in the region to push the political process forward.
Melinda Pierce, the deputy director for national campaigns at the Sierra Club, said she had campaigned against proposed transmission lines that would carry coal-fired energy around the country, but would favor this one, with its promise of tapping the potential of offshore wind.
At present, the water cut is 93%% and tapping the potential of remaining oil at the fault edges is essential to increase production.
While tapping the potential of remote sensing, the objective was to map and explain spatial patterns of current crop diversity by the example of the irrigated agricultural landscapes of the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan.
With large tracts of land for renewables becoming intensely contested, countries seeking to meet their renewables targets are directing attention also towards tapping the potential in the urban environment through smaller-scale facilities.
Rolen has tapped the potential that Philadelphians always knew he had.
Gov. George Pataki wants to tap the potential of DNA evidence to help solve crimes, and his instinct is surely right.
He added that he still felt the brand was "just beginning to tap the potential of women's wear".
The 22,500-seat American Express Community Stadium will open next season, allowing the club, which has been homeless since 1997 after the Goldstone Ground was sold by a previous board, to tap the potential that regularly drew crowds of 25,000 in the 1970s.
"We hadn't yet tapped the potential of the product, especially among a global audience," he said, noting that the company had barely 6,000 customers using the system at the time.
