SUMMERVILLE, S.C., September 21, 2026: Five years after Lisle Consulting Group was founded, the operations consulting firm today announced its next chapter as RBI Consulting Group, a new identity reflecting its focus on organizational architecture and the infrastructure growing organizations need to perform consistently.
The name RBI stands for Resilient Business Infrastructure, but the initials carry a deliberate second meaning.
“In baseball, an RBI is the result of turning opportunity into something that actually counts on the scoreboard,” said Mike Lisle, Principal and Organizational Architect at RBI Consulting Group. “Organizations face the same challenge. Strategy and effort matter, but eventually you have to put runs on the board. That requires an organization capable of executing.”
That idea is reflected in the firm’s new tagline: We Put Runs on the Board.
From Operational Problems to Organizational Architecture
Lisle Consulting Group was built around helping organizations operate better. Over five years of consulting work, a consistent pattern emerged: many of the operational problems leaders encounter are symptoms of a deeper issue. The organization’s architecture has not kept pace with what the organization has become.
Unclear accountability, inconsistent execution, decision bottlenecks, communication breakdowns, and dependence on key individuals can appear to be separate problems. Often, they are connected consequences of how the organization itself has been designed.
RBI Consulting Group works with growing small businesses, nonprofit organizations, municipal governments, and institutions of higher education. The firm focuses particularly on organizations that have reached a level of complexity where informal processes and institutional knowledge are no longer sufficient, but that may not yet need a full-time operations executive.
“Organizations don’t fail from lack of effort. They fail from architecture no one designed on purpose,” Lisle said. “Growth eventually exposes those architectural decisions, whether anyone consciously made them or not.”
Introducing the Operational Organization Framework™
Alongside the RBI Consulting Group identity, the firm is introducing the Operational Organization Framework™, a proprietary methodology for examining how an organization is designed, how that architecture affects day-to-day operations, and where organizational drift has created gaps between intent and execution.
The framework provides a common structure for diagnosing operational conditions and designing the infrastructure needed to move an organization toward greater operational maturity.
RBI applies the framework through four stages: Diagnose, Architect, Implement, and Mature (DAIM). The progression begins with understanding how the organization actually operates and continues through architectural design, implementation, and the ongoing stewardship required to maintain operational maturity.
The work extends beyond correcting today’s operational problems. RBI designs organizational architecture capable of supporting the demands that growth will place on it tomorrow.
Five Years In, Building for What Comes Next
The fifth anniversary provides a natural dividing line between the firm’s first chapter and its next one. The first five years clarified the work Lisle Consulting Group was increasingly being asked to do and the underlying organizational conditions driving that work. RBI Consulting Group gives that work a clearer identity and a more deliberate architecture of its own.
RBI’s work is grounded in a straightforward premise: growth creates operational weight. As organizations grow, practices that once worked through proximity, individual judgment, and institutional memory can become constraints. Authority must become clearer. Knowledge must become organizational. Work must become repeatable.
RBI Consulting Group helps leaders make those transitions intentionally and build organizations capable of carrying what comes next.
About RBI Consulting Group
RBI Consulting Group helps growing small businesses, nonprofits, municipal governments, and institutions of higher education build the operational architecture required to support the weight of what they are becoming. Through the Operational Organization Framework™, RBI diagnoses operational gaps and designs the systems, processes, decision structures, and accountability organizations need to execute consistently.
We Put Runs on the Board.
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