Get ready for business's NBT 2002

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 str...