At CMX Development, we bring you
fresh business insights, core-training,
techniques and business processes that will
improve your company’s performance.

Business Intelligence Gathering
and Strategic Planning

CMX delivers guidance through difficult problems so you can achieve significant improvements with sustainable long-term growth. You don’t need to go it alone.

• Is your current organizational structure aligned with your strategic goals?

• Do you know the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that drive your profitability?

• What other operational factors should you be measuring?

• What are your KPIs telling you about the financial health of your business, current trends, and departments or personnel that are under-performing?

• Is your company recession-proof? What planning specific recession tactics are in place for when the economy enters a downturn?

Business Development Support to
Maximize Market Opportunities

The effect of CMX’s work is to improve processes for developing new products and product strategies, through analysis of market acceptance, placement (distribution channels), pricing and net profit. There are usually unknown areas of concern to be addressed. CMX will analyze each of these areas, determine the effect of current and projected market trends which impact your sales, marketing and product development strategies.

• How do you gain greater understanding of your sales process for each of your distribution channels?

• Are you correctly developing and managing your sales efforts?

• What pricing strategies will affect the best customer acceptance?

• What activities create increased market presence and drive higher sales velocity?

Corporate Culture and
Human Resource Guidance

Your business culture is determined from the top down. It positively or negatively affects every aspect of your business. The correct use of your human capital is at the core of sustainable financial success. Strongly led and accountable teams naturally drive greater profit and lower employee turn-over. Building trust, safety and employee satisfaction. HR is a bottom-line issue. How is yours?

• What is your honest assessment of how well you are using your employees to achieve the mission of your company?

• Have you determined the right skill sets for each position?

• Are you focused on developing leadership capabilities of key employees?

• Do you have an accountability culture ingrained in every employee?

CMX founder John Morris is also a Vistage Chair.  You are welcome to attend a variety of educational events that are featured here, which may be sponsored by CMX Development or Vistage.

CMX Development was founded in 2001 by John Morris. Mr. Morris has more than 40 years’ experience in finance, operations, marketing and sales, business development, and consumer product development. His expertise includes financial forecasting, financial management, financial reporting, organizational management, human resources, and compliance. He is also well grounded in current computer technologies including hardware, networking, enterprise software, web development, and e-commerce applications. Mr. Morris enjoyed several decades of significant success in marketing and sales with large multi-national corporations Knight-Ridder and Time Warner. At these companies, he became a divisional leader in marketing and sales growth, and was a respected go-to resource for innovative marketing and new product launch concepts.

After 25 years in the publishing industry, Mr. Morris entered the field of business consulting to support the establishment and growth of start-up and emerging companies. All the companies he helped through the startup phase are still in business or have been acquired, and most of his clients were able to double their gross income over a two or three year period. As an entrepreneur, he has launched and grown several of his own companies, one of which achieved annual revenues of more than $10M and had over 50 employees. In 2017 Mr. Morris became of an executive coach, CEO mentor, and Chair of Vistage Worldwide. Vistage is the largest and most successful private executive coaching organizations in the world, with over 23,000 business leaders currently as members. Mr. Morris is also serves a Board member of Southwest Riverside County Economic Development Coalition. He earned a BS in Psychology and a Master of Business Administration and Finance.