NEW BUSINESS PARADIGM

The current business paradigm can be summed up in its four flawed principles, which include “The business of business is business,” and “A business exists to maximize value for its shareholders.”

To understand how the business community can move beyond these fallacies and provide the will and “can do” spirit to face the enormous challenges that society faces, read “From Current Business Paradigm to Second Renaissance,” by Sam Yau, Chairman of the Board of the Esalen Institute and Rinaldo Brutoco, Founding President of the World Business Academy. 

Ipad kindle demand boosts tablet shipping forecast.

thanks to  strong demand for apple's and competing device such as amazon's kindle fire, wordwide shimpmeans of tablet computes are likely to grow faster than expected  this year, according to a newly revised forecast from a market research group.
        IDC said  shimpments in the last three months of 2011 were highre than expected . as a result , the research group now projects shipments of 106 million in 2012, up from its previous forecat of nearly 88million . the new figure , out thesday represents a 54 percent increase from 69 million device shipped on 2011.
        since the ipad's debut in 2010 millions of people have flocked to these easy -to-use, easy-to-carry device to watch movies , pla games and catch up on the latest news and books. the rise of tablet computers comes at a time when  sales of traditional personal computers are slowing , particularly among consumers in the US and other industrialized countries . another research group , gartner , has forecast that PC shipments will grow at a relatively weak 4 percent this year as products fail to excite consumer the way tablets have. bit traditional pc makers   have sparked much of  their growth by turning to emerging markets.
           in industrialized markets, there's evidence that people are delaying replacement for their years-old PCs and bying tablets instead. "frankly,most are just waiting for a compelling reason to upgrade," said tom mainelli . IDC's research director for mobile connected devices.
           apple sold more than 40 million ipads last year , including 15 million in the holiday quarter , high demand is expected when a third version with a sharper screen ad a faster processing chip, goes sale  friday. although some researchers estimate that apple has more than 60 percent of the market for tablets, rivals have done well . the kindle fire came out on November with a lower price tag of $499 and up for the ipad at the time. the fire has a smaller screen and fewer features, but it's good enough for many consumers. IDC estimates that amazon.com inc shipped 4.7 million kindle fires y year's end.
                Mainelli said he initially expected the fire, which runs on a modified version of google's android system , to take sale away from other android tablets. instead , the fire's  success may have helped other android products, too, including samsung electronics co's galaxy device and barnes and noble inc's nook tablet. "it seems all the attention that the fire launch garnered raised awareness of media tablets in general, and a great number of vendors benefited  from this increased awareness ," he said.
           The 68.7 million tablets shipped in 2011 represents a 9 percent increase from IDC's forecast of 6303million and is about 305 times the 19.4million  shipped in 2010. IDC says 2802 million tablet computers were shipped on the final three months of 2011, about 2.5 about 2.5 time more than a year earlier.

international trade fair start April 5

The federation of nepalese chambers of comerce and industry. (FNCCI) is schedule to hold nepal intenational trade fair 2012 at Exhibition Hall, kathmandu . the expo will last from April 5-9. According to the FNCCI the trade fair is being organize as per the budget announcement which stated that an international level fairwould be held by mobilising diplomatic agencies and the private sector . the FNCCI said that the fair would not just be a place for trading goods and services , but more of a "showcase" of the entire country.
           the federation has planned to have displays on the basis of "one district one product " id addition to showcashing micro hydroelectricity , handicraft , hand made carpet. information technology , cottage and micro enterprises, green energy and urban development at separate pavilion.
          nepal telecom and shikhar shows are the main co-sponsore  of the event respectively. the sponsors are FINCCI believer the fair will give a boost to nepal investment year 2012-13. it is also expected to initiate bulding necessary infrastructure to conduct similar fairs in the future. around 200,000 people are expected to visit the fair whare will be 320 stalls . according to the  FNCCI , about 90 percent of the stalls have been booked.