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		<title>Are You a Revenue Assurance Black Belt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Karate movies. Like many people, my memory of Ninja, Kung Fu, Karate and Taekwondo movies goes back for decades. When I was growing up, it was Bruce Lee in “Enter the Dragon”, and most recently my current favorite is Jackie Chan. Who wouldn’t love to be a Ninja, flying through the air breaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRAPA: Minding the Gap and Assuring the Revenue in London Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot tell you how excited I was to put on a GRAPA training event in the city of London. What many of you may not realize is that a subset of people in the world that believe that London is the heart and soul, the actual birthplace of revenue assurance. Many of the “old-timers” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conferences, Vacations and Education – GRAPA User Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard conversations like this? “Are you going to the IMAZ Conference this year?” “No, why do you ask?” “Oh, it’s being held in IBIZA, great beaches, super suntans” “Yes, but what are they going to be talking about?” “Oh, you know the usual. A couple of software companies will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Revenue Assurance Professional Association Returns To Its Roots</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/global-revenue-assurance-professional-association-returns-to-its-roots/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/global-revenue-assurance-professional-association-returns-to-its-roots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Mattison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several years, it was good to return to the global city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to hold a South East Asian revenue assurance training and certification event. Kuala Lumpur has changed a lot in the last few years. It has become unbelievably modern, sophisticated and more comfortable then ever before. It was a real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid: Meshing Operations, Marketing and RA</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/madrid-training-week-2-the-challenge-of-meshing-operations-marketing-and-ra/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/madrid-training-week-2-the-challenge-of-meshing-operations-marketing-and-ra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Mattison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another topic our training group spent hours talking about is 3G and GPRS. There is a lot of confusion surrounding these technologies. Carriers in North America are already claiming they are 4G—surprising because when done properly, full implementation of 3G can take years. There are also carriers who claim to be 3.5G and 3.75G. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid: Running the Race with Trends</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/madrid-training-week-2-running-the-race-with-trends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Mattison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would say the biggest surprise coming out of the Madrid training is the growing importance of Revenue Maximization. Revenue assurance for churn, rate plan assurance and new product development seems to have become standard procedure for RA departments almost overnight. Everyone coming to the trainings agrees that most telcos are now intent on moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid: Multinationals and Certification</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/madrid-training-week-2-multinationals-and-certification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Mattison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March I talked about how 2009 would be the year of the revenue assurance professional. I talked about how revenue assurance professionals were becoming the ‘go to resource’ at telcos, evolving from an informally assembled group with disparate skill sets (Operations, IT, Marketing), to a staff that is focused, specialized, trained, professional and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid Training Week Two: Traditions and Firsts</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/madrid-training-traditions-and-firsts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Mattison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Training in Madrid is moving into its second week, which always means some new faces. As always, trainees hail from around the globe: Sweden, Jordan, UAE and Ireland—just to name a few. Several have interesting stories regarding their travels to Madrid and you will be reading those soon. Rumours of ‘swine flu’ and other travel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid: New Certification Program In Development</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/madrid-new-certification-program-in-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Mattison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post I talked about the &#34;un-conferences &#34; we are thinking of holding. While that is a big and exciting thing, a more fundamental shift is occurring with development of a new GRAPA certification program. Specialist certificates will now be awarded for two to three day trainings in specific functions and technologies such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid: Plans for Late 2009, &quot;Un-conferences,&quot; São Paulo, Miami</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/madrid-plans-for-late-2009-unconferences-sao-paolo-miami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Mattison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Madrid training underway, we’re already looking forward to the upcoming Cairo and Kuala Lumpur trainings as well as some changes for the second half of the year. We&#8217;ve even put up a tentative calendar for dates and regions in 2010. For the next half of the year, we’re looking at holding ‘un-conferences’; no [...]]]></description>
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