Have you looked at any of the recent agendas for “Revenue Assurance” conferences around the world? Have you seen any of the vendor’s websites, or the latest marketing programs and promotions for consulting firms, software vendors and systems integrators? If you have, then you may be like me, just a bit confused.

It seems my friends, that telecommunications revenue assurances out of fashion. It has lost its appeal. It is old fashioned and out of style. While most conferences and software/hardware vendors and consultants continue to give a respectful “nod” to the term revenue assurance, many seem to believe revenue assurance is not important anymore.

I again (happily) found myself providing training for another corporate, multi-national revenue assurance group. The room was full of revenue assurance managers and team members all working for the same corporate group, but traveling from a dozen different countries around the world. It fills me with a sense of respect and admiration where I see the incredible level of sophistication, dedication and enthusiasm that these professionals exhibit.

What do Ernst and Young, Protiviti, Infosys, PWC, Deloitte and IBM all have in common? Is it that:

a)      They are some of the largest, most successful consulting organizations in the world today?

b)      Each has a large, viable commitment to providing professional consulting services to telcos in the Internal Audit, Fraud and Revenue Assurance domains?

c)      Each has sent several of their consultants to GRAPA Certification and Training Events?

The answer is, all of the above.