When Lightening Strikes – Botswana and Revenue Assurance

R Mattison’s Podcast

I recently spent an amazing week with a class of revenue assurance, internal auditor, fraud and telco operations professionals in Botswana. During the training two issues kept coming up: “How exactly do I set up a governance model for revenue assurance,” and “What model should be used for measuring how effective the revenue assurance team really is?”  These are interesting questions and certainly frequently asked at trainings.

In a previous article, I discussed the issue of revenue assurance and our involvement in the assurance of sales channels. As we considered in that article, it was clear that even though sales channels might be considered off the beaten path for the typical revenue assurance team, more and more telcos are realizing that:

a)     Breakdowns in sales channels can have an enormous negative effect on revenues.

b)    Revenue assurance teams are exceptionally good at addressing those risks.