While I was in Shanghai on business this week, I had the pleasure to visit the Bloomberg Shanghai bureau as a guest of Margaret Conley, who is an anchor and reporter for Bloomberg Television. Margaret gave me a wonderful tour of the Bloomberg's news studio, editing center and the client training facility.
Bloomberg's management believes that open and fast communication is critical for the operation of the global news bureau. I have always heard that Bloomberg offices have fish tanks and transparent open floor designs. It is true! All meeting rooms in the Shanghai bureau have glass windows, so you could look inside. All staffs' including management's desks are clustered in a big open room without walls to facilitate better and faster communication.
Bloomberg's core money-generating product is the Bloomberg Terminal, which is a computer system that enables financial professionals to access the Bloomberg Professional service through which users can monitor and analyze real-time financial market data movements and place trades on the electronic trading platform. The system also provides news, price quotes, and messaging across its proprietary secure network. It was exciting to see the amazing capability of the Terminal and how much information is being contained in this machine!
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