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Check out the next batch of Winning By Design sales templates released in Lucidchart and customize them for your sales org. 

Sales compensation plans are the most significant driver of success in sales and also one of the biggest financial investments of an organization. With such high stakes, it’s crucial to get your plan right. Review these steps and best practices to learn how.

Learn about the benefits and lifecycle of DevOps and see how your organization can adopt a successful DevOps process flow.

Event storming is a group modeling technique that brings together stakeholders and helps them understand what is happening in a business problem or in the domain of a software program. Learn how you can start using this collaborative, visual process.

Jerry Hargrove wraps up his series on Google Cloud AutoML Vision. Incorporate your classification model into a working system that allows users to submit images for classification.

Cloud evangelist Jerry Hargrove has built AircraftML, an aircraft classification system, to experiment with different AI/ML services. Now he answers your frequently asked questions about this bot.

Learn four myths about Visio® for the web before you commit. See why Lucidchart is the better solution for real-time team collaboration, device compatibility, and version control.

What is project management? What is change management? These terms are often confused, but you will likely need both to handle that changes that drive success. Learn the differences between project and change management, and see how to incorporate these methods at your company.

Want your sales organization to run like a well-oiled machine? Then it's time to add a sales operations role. Learn about the goals, functions, and best practices of sales operations teams and how sales operations differs from sales enablement.

According to a 2017 report, trust is the most important factor in closing a deal. So if you want to learn how to close bigger deals faster, check out our suggestions on building a trusting relationship with your prospects.

Need a crash course in cloud computing basics? If you are one of the many businesses considering a switch to cloud-based services, this article will review cloud computing terminology and concepts to help you out.

Wish you had some magic words that would close your sale every time? This article gets you pretty close with a proven outline for successful sales calls (we even include best practices for an objection handling script).