The phrase "a shift in resources" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes in the allocation or distribution of resources, such as time, money, or personnel.
Example: "The company is undergoing a shift in resources to better align with its strategic goals."
Alternatives: "a reallocation of resources" or "a change in resource distribution."
Given their unpopularity, and Indonesia's battered economy, such a shift in resources will be hard for any new president to sell.
A shift in resources from the military to invigorate education and to encourage the restructuring of American industry would make a crucial difference to the US in facing increasingly tough commercial competition from Europe and Japan.
A meeting of the UK National Security Council will order a shift in resources and energy in its counter-terrorist strategy away from a sole focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East towards what David Cameron described as a "generational struggle" against al-Qaida-inspired militants in north Africa.
Legal and financial experts say that a loosening of enforcement measures, cutbacks in staffing at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a shift in resources toward terrorism at the F.B.I. have combined to make the federal government something of a paper tiger in investigating securities crimes.
To the extent that the American and European consumers who stand to benefit from lower oil prices spend more of their income than do the Arab sheikhs and the Russian oligarchs who benefit from higher ones, a shift in resources toward oil importers boosts demand worldwide.
Let's introduce a lifetime allowance of £500,000 for ISA investments and freeze the annual limit at £15,000 for the remainder of this parliament with a shift in resources – for example, by matching, pound for pound, the first £100 that each saver puts in an ISA for basic rate taxpayers.
Through a case study of a "REDD-readiness" climate change mitigation and adaptation project, we demonstrate how a shift in resource control and management from local to global actors builds upon narratives of environmental change (forest loss) that have little factual basis in environmental histories.
An AIDS-free generation requires a shift in resource allocation approaches; ideally, each country would start each year with a clean-slate budget and determine how to use money most effectively based on the latest science, epidemiology, and evidence of impact.
If the resident population of small-bodied people underwent a rapid shift in stature and body mass, there must also have been a shift in resource base utilization and this would be visible in the archaeological record.
Ecological speciation is a process in which a shift in resource or habitat use within an ancestral species triggers the formation of two new sister species, each adapted to exploit different niches [ 1, 2].
The transcriptional downregulation of photosynthetic and primary metabolism related genes appears to be a universal adaptive response of plants to phloem-feeding insects and represents a shift in resource allocation from growth to basal defense [ 19].
