Your operation can't stop. Neither can your technology.
IBR Advisory designs, governs and tests the technology your business depends on: operational continuity, critical infrastructure, IT governance and AI adoption. With the IBR Method and no vendor interests.
Technology decisions are paid for twice: when you buy them and when they fail.
A core system that goes down on a Monday at 9 a.m. A vendor that renegotiates once you have no alternative. We see these situations often. If one sounds familiar, it is worth a conversation.
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Are your vendors selling you what suits them?
When the only advisor is the one selling, every recommendation is a quote. IBR Advisory represents no brands: it evaluates, compares and negotiates on the client's side.
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Did the board approve an investment that did not deliver what was promised?
The gap between the presentation and the operation often costs more than the project. Closing it takes someone who understands both: the business case and the server room.
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How long can your operation stay down before it hurts?
If the answer is "we don't know", there is work to do. Continuity is designed, tested and measured. Once it fails, it is too late to plan for it.
The IBR Method. Five phases, one standard.
Every project goes through the same five phases, with defined deliverables and evidence at each one. The board knows where the project stands, what was decided and why. And an auditor can verify it.
- Diagnosis
- Design
- Execution
- Validation
- Continuity
Diagnosis
Understand the real problem, not the symptom
Design
Architecture based on international frameworks
Execution
Specialized team, a single standard
Validation
Results checked against the agreed objectives
Continuity
Sustaining the operation over time
At the close of each phase, the client receives a deliverable they can take to the board or the auditor.
Business continuity
Your operation keeps running, even when technology fails.
Few organizations know what one hour without their critical system costs. Almost all of them find out the day it happens. IBR Advisory designs continuity and recovery plans that work when they are needed, not only when the auditor reviews them. The firm comes from running critical infrastructure in regulated sectors, where an outage is reported to the regulator.
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Business impact analysis (BIA)
Which processes cannot stop, how long they can be down and what each hour costs. This is the basis for deciding where to invest and where not to.
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Continuity and recovery plan (BCP and DRP)
Recovery objectives (RTO and RPO) set with the business, not with the vendor. Procedures a team can run at 2 a.m. without the consultant beside them.
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Resilient architecture
The failure of one component should not stop the operation. We design redundancy where the impact justifies it and avoid it where it only adds cost.
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Testing and ISO 22301 compliance
Drills, recovery tests and evidence ready for internal, external and regulatory audits. A plan that has not been tested is a hypothesis.
For implementation, the firm works with technology partners selected for each project, under the direction and standard of IBR Advisory.
Eight practices, coordinated from one place.
Technology problems are rarely only about technology. Behind them there is a budget, a contract, a regulator or a board. That is why IBR Advisory runs the eight practices as one system.
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Enabling Business Through Technology
We turn the board's priorities into a technology roadmap with explicit timelines, costs and risks. Before approving it, the board knows what it gets and what it gives up.
CEO, CIO, Board
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Enterprise Architecture & Digital Transformation
Designed under TOGAF and EA Standard 10.0. Scalability, interoperability and resilience are defined at the start, when change is still cheap.
CTO, Architecture, Transformation
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IT Financial Discipline
OPEX and CAPEX portfolios with TCO, ROI and FP&A. Business cases written so a CFO can approve them without asking for a second meeting.
CFO, Finance, Board
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IT Governance & Regulatory Compliance
COBIT and ITIL applied to the real operation. Compliance with Ecuador's SBS regulations, Basel III and international frameworks, with the evidence ready before the audit arrives.
Risk, Compliance, Audit, Regulatory
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Vendor Management & Outsourcing
Technical evaluation, negotiation and contracts with service levels that protect the client. The recommendation does not change depending on who is selling.
Procurement, CTO, Legal
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Executive Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Aligning the board, the CIO and the CFO on projects where each area has a different priority. Technical teams that perform when the pressure is high.
C-Level, Board, Teams
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Risk Management & Operational Continuity
ISO 27001, NIST CSF and ISO 22301 applied to the operation. Plans tested with drills, not just with signatures.
Risk, Security, Operations
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Strategic Decision-Making
We frame the problem, put the alternatives on the table with their costs and risks, and follow execution until the result can be measured.
CEO, C-Suite, Boards
Agentic Artificial Intelligence
AI doesn't fail for lack of budget. It fails for lack of governance.
Many AI pilots never leave the lab. Not because of the technology, but because nobody defined what problem they solved, with what data or under what controls. IBR Advisory applies the IBR Method to AI adoption: use cases with measurable value, governance by design and results a board can audit.
Use cases chosen on merit
We identify the processes in your operation where an AI agent saves hours of work. The evaluation does not depend on any vendor.
AI governance by design
Before the first agent reaches production, its data and controls are defined. So is who is accountable for it.
From pilot to production
We integrate AI with the infrastructure and security you already have, so the pilot moves to production with its controls.
Auditable results
Every initiative starts with a business case and agreed metrics. At the close, it is validated against them, as in phase 4 of the IBR Method.
A practice backed by executive training in agentic AI (Harvard Online) and the Cisco AI Business Practitioner certification.
For technology leaders
IBR Executive Mentorship
Confidential working sessions for technology leaders with a difficult decision ahead: a board presentation, a vendor negotiation, an architecture to define with little time. Your mentor has been in that position. Results-oriented, with no generic answers.
- Agentic AI adoption: what to prioritize, what to govern and what not to buy
- Board presentations that get approved
- Vendor negotiations when the balance of power looks uneven
- Architecture decisions under time and budget pressure
- Leading technical teams in high-demand environments
- Building a career path to senior technology leadership
International frameworks, applied with our own tools.
The same language as your auditors, your regulator and your board.
Governance and service
COBIT1ITIL2ISO 200003
Security and continuity
ISO 270014NIST CSF5ISO 223016
Enterprise architecture
TOGAF7EA Standard 10.08
Sector-specific regulatory compliance
Industry-specific regulatory framework9
Each industry has its own regulator, and the IBR Method incorporates its rules: SBS and Basel III in banking, data protection and continuity in healthcare, operational resilience in utilities and telecommunications.
The rigor of a large firm, with the direct access of a small one.
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International frameworks applied with our own tools
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One accountable contact from start to finish
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Vendor commissions. We do not sell technology.
Large consulting firms
- Methodological excellence and international brand backing
- Ideal for large-scale corporate transformation projects
- Models designed for large global accounts with budgets to match
- High-caliber multidisciplinary teams with an international outlook
- Robust processes for projects that require scale and structure
- IBR Advisory can complement them as an independent technical counterpart
IBR Advisory
- The same standard on every project, large or small
- Represents no brands and resells no equipment
- Real technical depth, from the boardroom to the data center
- Within reach of mid-sized companies, with the rigor of a multinational
- Each sector's local regulations, known from day one
- Technical counterpart for large firms and integrators
We design, direct the execution and are accountable for the result.
IBR Advisory understands the problem, designs the solution and directs the execution. When the scope requires it, the firm brings in specialists and technology partners for each project, all under the same standard. The client has one accountable party.
Technology Solution Architecture
IBR Advisory designs the technical solution for each problem, whether it involves networks or cloud. Every design starts from a business objective that can be measured.
Architecture, Design, Solutions
Specialized technical capacity when needed
Specialists join when the project needs them. They work with the IBR Method and meet the same quality standard.
Implementation, Execution, Support
Ecosystem of alliances and vendors
When dealing with a manufacturer or an integrator, IBR Advisory acts as the client's technical counterpart. It reviews every proposal and defends the client's interests in the negotiation.
Vendors, Manufacturers, Negotiation
Is your organization in any of these situations?
If you see your organization here, a 30-minute conversation is probably worth it.
Regulated organizations
Banking, insurance, healthcare and utilities. Where the regulator asks for evidence, recovery times and a named owner.
Growing companies
Retail, industry, logistics and services. They grow faster than their technology and need it to scale without paying for the same investment twice.
Critical operations
Plants, networks, distribution centers and platforms that cannot stop. Where every hour of downtime has a cost someone has already calculated.
The judgment behind every recommendation.
SD-WAN: An Enterprise Architecture Perspective
An analysis of SD-WAN technology through enterprise architecture principles: strategic alignment, flexibility, scalability, integration and interoperability. Published on LinkedIn, publicly available.
Read on LinkedInIBR Talks: a podcast on decisions that truly matter
Conversations on enterprise architecture, critical infrastructure, IT governance and technology leadership in the Andean region. For executives who make hard decisions and want to make them better.
Why IBR Advisory
IBR Advisory comes from running critical technology in sectors where an outage is reported to the regulator. That is where the IBR Method comes from: five phases, nine frameworks and the habit of leaving evidence of every decision. And one rule that is not negotiable: we do not sell technology, so we can recommend freely.
What we recommend, we have run ourselves.
Which metric in your business should be moving and isn't?
Thirty minutes to understand your situation and tell you frankly whether IBR Advisory can help. If it is not our field, we will tell you.
The first conversation is free: a coffee, with no sales agenda.
- No conflict of interest
- Aligned with the business, not the product
- First conversation at no cost
- One accountable party from start to finish