<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Rob Mattison Revenue Assurance Training &#187; revenue assurance</title>
	<atom:link href="http://rob-mattison-blog.com/tag/revenue-assurance/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:19:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator>
<xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" />
		<item>
		<title>Getting it. GRAPA Style.</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/getting-it-grapa-style/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/getting-it-grapa-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grapa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRAPA Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Guidelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRAPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[members]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecommunications]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1321</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/getting-it-grapa-style/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>What If Your Revenue Assurance Problem Is IT? Look In A Mirror.</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/what-if-your-revenue-assurance-problem-is-it-look-in-a-mirror/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/what-if-your-revenue-assurance-problem-is-it-look-in-a-mirror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grapa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Guidelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance scope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standards]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been in the telecommunications industry for a very long time. My first job after university, back in the ancient times, was with ATT in Chicago. Since then, I have been privileged to work for many different telcos in a lot of different capacities. What most people don’t know is that even though I have [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/what-if-your-revenue-assurance-problem-is-it-look-in-a-mirror/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Revenue Assurance Discussion: A Bad Case of CAMEL Fraud in Cairo</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-discussion-a-bad-case-of-camel-fraud-in-cairo/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-discussion-a-bad-case-of-camel-fraud-in-cairo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grapa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cairo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRAPA GSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-discussion-a-bad-case-of-camel-fraud-in-cairo/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, we finished another great week of running our Core Xtreme Revenue Assurance training class in Cairo. With fifteen people from Africa and the Middle East, it was another fantastic session for everyone involved. A I have mentioned before, it always amazes me how each time we teach this class, we end up focusing [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenue-assurance-discussion-a-bad-case-of-camel-fraud-in-cairo/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The FIFA World Cup vs Wrestle Mania: Which Model Will Revenue Assurance Choose ?</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/the-fifa-world-cup-vs-wrestle-mania-which-model-will-revenue-assurance-choose/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/the-fifa-world-cup-vs-wrestle-mania-which-model-will-revenue-assurance-choose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grapa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1305</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/the-fifa-world-cup-vs-wrestle-mania-which-model-will-revenue-assurance-choose/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>More CEO Love for Revenue Assurance</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/more-ceo-love-for-revenue-assurance/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/more-ceo-love-for-revenue-assurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecommunications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1282</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/more-ceo-love-for-revenue-assurance/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why Consultants Love GRAPA</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenueassuranceconsultants/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenueassuranceconsultants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letter from the President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRAPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[membership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standards]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1270</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/revenueassuranceconsultants/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/why-i-love-volcanoes-and-ceos-love-grapa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRAPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volcano]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1258</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/why-i-love-volcanoes-and-ceos-love-grapa/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>When Lightening Strikes – Revenue Assurance in Botswana</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/when-lightening-strikes-%e2%80%93-revenue-assurance-in-botswana/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/when-lightening-strikes-%e2%80%93-revenue-assurance-in-botswana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[botswana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1244</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/when-lightening-strikes-%e2%80%93-revenue-assurance-in-botswana/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Follow The Money – Part 2 : Assurance for Commissions and Sales Compensation Plans</title>
		<link>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/follow-the-money-%e2%80%93-part-2-assurance-for-commissions-and-sales-compensation-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/follow-the-money-%e2%80%93-part-2-assurance-for-commissions-and-sales-compensation-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance scope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1234</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/follow-the-money-%e2%80%93-part-2-assurance-for-commissions-and-sales-compensation-plans/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/follow-the-money-%e2%80%93-revenue-assurance-and-sales-channel-assurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consider This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Guidelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Assurance Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue assurance scope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rob-mattison-blog.com/?p=1222</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://rob-mattison-blog.com/follow-the-money-%e2%80%93-revenue-assurance-and-sales-channel-assurance/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
