Operational Velocity

About Operational Velocity

Operational Velocity is a podcast about the operating system that converts inputs into cash, decisions into margin, and operational discipline into returns that compound over time. This series is built around one key thesis: the way a business operates determines what it returns. The show works through four main lenses: 1) value creation through operations, 2) operations-first leaders, 3) technology as operational leverage, and 4) operating systems. Each lens is a different way of seeing the same truth; every financial metric you care about has an operational driver sitting upstream of it. In essence, EBITDA margin, free cash flow, and return on capital employed are all operational outcomes. This series is hosted by Gautam Basu (PhD, MBA).

Publisher

Gautam Basu

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jun 2026

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Ep 20. Brad Jacobs: XPO, Logistics Roll-Up, Build It, Run It, Break It Up

   Email for Inquiries In 2011, Brad Jacobs bought control of a $158 million Michigan-based logistics company at approx. $7 a share. Fifteen years later, that one share has become three NYSE companies: XPO, GXO and RXO. This episode tells the XPO story as a logistics story, not a deal story. We map every freight mode Jacobs bought into, from brokerage and LTL to intermodal, last mile and contract logistics. Then we follow the Norbert Dentressangle and Con-way deals, the technology-led integrati...

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Ep 19. Couche-Tard & Circle K: 9,000 Chains of One

   Email for Inquiries On 31 July 2026, Alimentation Couche-Tard, the company behind Circle K agreed to buy Poland's Żabka: more than 13,000 stores and around US$8.6 billion in equity value, the largest deal in its history. Just six days earlier, Seven & i, the owner of 7-Eleven, had pulled out of its own Żabka investment. A year before that, Couche-Tard had walked away from a US$47 billion pursuit of Seven & i itself. This episode opens up the operating system behind both decisions. We...

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Ep 18. Eli Goldratt: The Goal, Theory of Constraints, OPT, Drum-Buffer-Rope

   Email for Inquiries In 1984, a physicist wrote a novel to sell his factory software. It worked too well, but it cost him his company. Eli Goldratt's "The Goal" became one of the most influential business books ever written. By his own account, operations managers that read it got better results than clients who had bought his scheduling software. He refused to pretend otherwise, and his shareholders showed him the door.This episode tells that story, then opens the Theory of Constraints for o...

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5.0 / 5

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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