Emerson as whole is very decentralized and scattered around the world, which is frustrating and confusing. For example they have 6 separate office locations in Houston. Technically on paper, St. Louis is the headquarters but parts of the business are ran from several locations (Minnesota , Austin, Colorado, etc.) on the automation solutions side of the business . Lately they have had the business model of acquiring companies and selling divisions off to make money. Every 3 years they run into layoffs because they are at the mercy of global markets and are over leveraged to oil and gas industry, which have seen prices tanking since 2008. They are very top heavy with layers of senior management, and tend to first focus on the finances first and accounting second. The funny part is there is so much extra fat still. The company is slow to move, usually 5 years behind on things. For example in 2020 they just started realizing they had data from all their equipment coming off sensors that they could run analytics and provide services to customers as a value add. This company can design and invent new things from an engineer standpoint, but it is not a pioneer in business, it is a close follower. It disrupts by acquiring or jumping into different markets after they have shown promise and using its power to hit the ground running much Like AB-INBev is today in the beer industry.
