Resource (disambiguation)

A Resource is any physical or virtual entity of limited availability.

It may also refer to:

• Resource (biological), substances or objects required by an organism for normal maintenance, growth, and reproduction of biological organisms, including
  • Nutrients or food, limited availability of essential nutrients or food
  • Water, limited availability of water
  • Habitat, limited places to grow, live, or breed
  • Competition, involving biological interactions under limited resource supply

• Resource (economics), commodities and human resources used in the production of goods and services, including
  • Natural resource, a commodity that is valuable in its relatively natural form
  • Human resources (HR) or human capital, valuable human work power
  • Resource (project management), economic resources used in planning of tasks

• Resource (computer science), including
  • Resource (Web), anything identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier which can be found in a certain location
  • Resource (Macintosh), data associated with a Mac OS file
  • Resource (Windows), data embedded in EXE and DLL files
  • Resource (Java), application data

Resourcing refers to funding and the management of resources, like in:

• Management, where resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of resources.
• Project Governance, where the enabler role, through resourcing of projects, is to harness and manage also the provision of resources.
• Recruitment of Human Resources, where employee recruitment forms a major part of an organization's overall resourcing strategies.
• Closing the gaps in Workforce Planning, where resourcing forms one of the eight key areas that is needed to focus on.
• Supplier Relationship Management, where resourcing is one of the skills required for procurement to implement successful SRM.