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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>The Great GRAPA NGN Explosion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When we started GRAPA back in 2007, there were many things that we thought would happen. However, one thing we were sure of was that the wire line incumbent telcos would not be high on our list of members. It is not because we did not like them, or we did not want them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting it. GRAPA Style.</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/getting-it-grapa-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had one of those “million dollar moments”. You know, when something happens that just makes you feel good about yourself. A moment that validates all the work, pain, and struggle that we go through and sometimes question; is it worth it? What happened?&#160; Simple. We were putting on a Revenue Assurance training event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Consultants Love GRAPA</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenueassuranceconsultants/</link>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Technical Revenue Assurance]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/why-i-love-volcanoes-and-ceos-love-grapa/</link>
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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>Visiting Germany – Riding the Revenue Assurance Autobahn</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/visiting-germany-%e2%80%93-riding-the-revenue-assurance-autobahn/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/visiting-germany-%e2%80%93-riding-the-revenue-assurance-autobahn/#comments</comments>
		<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>Revenue Assurance and the Regulator</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-and-the-regulator/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-and-the-regulator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are those who feel there is no place for these two words in the same sentence. After all, why would regulators care about revenue assurance, and why would revenue assurance people care about regulations and regulators? There is an old saying; if you talk before you think, you will probably end up with your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revenue Assurance: Professional Perspectives for 2010</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-professional-perspectives-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-professional-perspectives-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the beginning of a fresh new year, we are seeing a lot of new exciting growth for GRAPA and for revenue assurance professionals around the world. Revenue Assurance Professional Staffs Growing At Astronomical Rate The biggest single landmark for revenue assurance has been the almost continuous growth in the size of revenue assurance departments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning at the Revenue Assurance Game: Who Are You Competing With?</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/winning-at-the-revenue-assurance-game-%e2%80%93-who-are-you-competing-with/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/winning-at-the-revenue-assurance-game-%e2%80%93-who-are-you-competing-with/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter where I travel in the world, what airport I happen to be in, or what hotel I am staying at, one thing is guaranteed to be on every television or radio in a public place; sporting events. Football, cricket, golf, Formula One Car Racing&#8211;the world is obsessed with sports and competition. And why [...]]]></description>
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