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Article: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: Everyone Benefits by Sharing Information.
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- Public Roads
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- November 1, 1999
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Large organizations know a lot of things, but they don't always know what they know.
Consider this scenario: You're a specialist in construction technology, and you work in a field office of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). A civil engineer at a state department of transportation calls you, requesting information about [Superpave.sup.TM] asphalt mixture design. You know FHWA has plenty of information about Superpave. But where is it? How do you find it? Whom do you call?
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