The scientific method of Bacon, and the design process with which you are all familiar. They are almost identical; it's just the way in which it's emphasized. What I would like to say is that they really are not orthogonal to each other. They're essentially the same thing. The last piece on this is that research drives the operation. Once you go into a research culture, even though you have these other components, the research really drives the entire culture.

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