High-Tech Manufacturing Is White Hot | Uphoff on Industry

<p>The Big Themes:</p><ul><li><strong>Manufacturing is hot again:</strong> In this country there’s a Renaissance, I love it because I joined Thomas four years ago with the idea it is going to get white hot again.</li><li><strong>The millennial generation:</strong> Young people in particular are starting to imagine what their future might look like, and what manufacturing provides for them that other technology doesn’t.</li><li><strong>The Dollar Shave Club:</strong> The technology enabled the ability to create a subscription business out of razors into a retail outlet of my brand of razor.</li><li><strong>If you're a horizontal player:</strong> At some point you’ve got to understand that your entry into a marketplace needs to be vertical.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Big Quotes:</p><p>“So the idea that a computer company could be a car company and a car company could be a computer company is not a reach today. It's a reality.”</p><p> </p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.</p>