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		<title>The FIFA World Cup vs Wrestle Mania: Which Model Will Revenue Assurance Choose ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I am American. And as many of you know, in America, we in general do not really appreciate what the rest of the world knows as football, or what North Americans call soccer. As most who know me personally know, I am not a typical American. For years,I have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More CEO Love for Revenue Assurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Consultants Love GRAPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephant Envy and Other Disorders</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/elephant-envy-and-other-disorders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having goals is wonderful. That is how set up measures for ourselves and assess our progress. However, goal setting can create problems, especially when it comes to choosing role models. What happened to those who regarded Toyota as the example of how to run a car company? What about those who chose Tiger Woods as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love Volcanoes and CEOs Love GRAPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I survived the great volcanic ash cloud of 2010. Like many travelers around the world, I too was stranded in a place I did not want to be when Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull Volcano decided to do its thing.  We had an event scheduled in Rotterdam, and we had to cancel it while people scrambled to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Lightening Strikes – Revenue Assurance in Botswana</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Lightening Strikes &#8211; Botswana and Revenue Assurance R Mattison&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow The Money – Part 2 : Assurance for Commissions and Sales Compensation Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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)     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Money – Part 1:  Revenue Assurance and Sales Channel Assurance</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/follow-the-money-%e2%80%93-revenue-assurance-and-sales-channel-assurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most exciting and challenging things about the revenue assurance world as we evolve as professionals, is how the scope of our responsibilities continues to expand. Few revenue assurance professionals do not understand the process of tracking and assuring the integrity of a CDR. But many of us are finding that following CDRs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Germany – Riding the Revenue Assurance Autobahn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we had a break in our training schedule, so Brigitte and I spent a week in Germany visiting family. I love Germany. That should be obvious, since I married a German. Brigitte was born and raised in Augsburg in the Southern part of Germany known as Bavaria. With its beautiful countryside, rolling landscape, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luxembourg Reprise and a Visit With Some Revenue Assurance Royalty</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/luxembourg-reprise-and-a-visit-with-some-revenue-assurance-royalty/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/luxembourg-reprise-and-a-visit-with-some-revenue-assurance-royalty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once again found myself conducting GRAPA training in the pretty little country of Luxembourg. In my world, ending up in the same city twice in the same year is a real bonus. I did not even have to buy a new SIM, I still had top-up on my “Tango” SIM from the last trip. [...]]]></description>
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