The time is right for the next big thing. But what will follow in the footsteps of the internet, the mobile phone and the China strategy?
By Matthew Lynn in the Bloomberg London newsroom Making predictions for the new year is a hazardous trade. You either go for something profound and woolly, such as 'there will be much grieving in distant places.'' Or something dull yet implausibly precise: 'the euro will drop by 3.8% against the yen in the first half.'' Either way, eggs and faces are set on a collision course. One thing seems obvious for 2002. Business is due a new fad. The Next Big Thing, or NBT, in recent years was the internet. Before that, it was the mobile phone. In the mid-1990s companies needed to have 'China s...
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