As with the term resource, HR and corporate strategy also treat behavior in a neutral sense, denoting a measureable set of actions that can enable business outcomes, not something that is to be manipulated through fear or chicanery.

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It will be aimed at salespeople, HR professionals and project and resource managers to aid in customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and other business processes.

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If given the choice of only being able to move one application to the cloud, most respondents would choose storage (25%), followed by enterprise resource planning applications to manage HR, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and project management systems (20%).

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Those raising apprehensions can be reassured that HR and corporate strategy tend to use the term resource in a neutral way, with no implication that people ought to be mechanized.

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The company was in the middle of implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX as its new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, and HR was not part of that initiative.

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"We are very concerned that the department is moving forward with what is clearly a fundamental change in longstanding policies regarding affirmative action, " said Jeffrey McGuiness, president of the HR Policy Association, a trade group for human-resource executives at more than 300 of the largest private-sector U.S. companies.

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