Creating Company Culture by Defining Your Why

In our 27-year history, Beck Technology has put as much priority on building a company culture of passion, innovation, and caring as we have on building the best software solutions for preconstruction teams. Stewart Carroll, Beck Technology President, was invited on The Construction Record podcast to speak about how he and our leadership team at Beck Technology maintain an award-winning company culture.  

Stewart says the key to defining your company’s culture is to make sure you articulate the why behind what you do. In Beck Technology’s case, our mission is to revolutionize the industry...create the future. Through our three main core values of passion, innovation, and caring, the Beck Technology team collectively shares the ambitious dream of making the world a better place.  

“We work in an industry that really touches everyone on the planet. At Beck Tech, we firmly believe that if we can help our customers—preconstruction, estimators, schedulers—make better, more informed decisions throughout the life of a project it will result in better projects. If we can build better projects, we believe we can positively impact everybody on the planet,” says Stewart.  

Beck Technology incorporates its core values in everything we do—from hiring to our day-to-day operations. For our preconstruction data lifecycle company, to reiterate our core values, there is a variety of tools, practices, and rituals that are built around our ‘why.’ For example, through a project management tool, employees give each other virtual high-fives for a job well done and then are recognized through the Beck Tech Cares program, where every month one employees gets to choose a charity in which Beck Technology gives a donation.  

Further, daily standings with managers, weekly all-company meetings, and monthly virtual hangouts between different departments help keep everyone connected. These check-ins give everyone the opportunity to hear what and how each department is doing and are good reminders for the entire company to align their effort with Beck Technology’s larger goals. As Stewart says, “If you do not know the destination, you’ll never get there.”  

For Beck Technology, the 10-year plan is to have 50% of the construction industry utilize our DESTINI suite of preconstruction software. That goal can only be achieved by defining milestones and keeping within a strategic plan. In Beck Technology’s case, that is evaluating what the company and landscape looks like in three years, as well as revisiting the strategic plan yearly.  

It may seem a bit unusual for a construction tech company to focus so heavily on developing and maintaining it’s company culture but because Beck Technology believes so firmly in supporting the industry that truly is making the world a better place, we (Beck Tech and the industry as a whole) can’t revolutionize the industry and create the future without changing the way things are being done now.  

When Beck Technology asks general contractors what they look for in a software vendor, most say the same thing—pricing, features, efficiency, and accessibility. And though DESTINI Estimator construction estimating software and DESTINI Bid Day bid leveling software have competition in the construction tech market, the people behind the products are different.  

When you’re purchasing software, it’s often easy to fall into the trap of just thinking in the moment. As long as the technology does what its sales professionals claim it can do, does anything else really matter? But the truth is that more often than not, the success of bringing a new tool onto your team depends on the culture of the company that built it. This is essentially someone you’re going to be partnering with for years at a time – you need to make sure it’s someone who won’t stay still, but who is going to grow and adapt alongside you.  

When you decide to explore new estimating software, you need to look for a vendor whose culture encourages constant growth, adaptability, and innovation. You need a partner who can keep up with whatever the world throws at them and who won’t back down from a challenge. 

Listen to Stewart discuss how Beck Technology encourages a culture of passion, innovation, and caring in this episode of The Construction Record below. 


About The Construction Record 

The Construction Record is the bi-weekly, award winning, national construction news podcast for the Daily Commercial News and the Journal of Commerce. The podcast has been ranked among the top construction podcasts on the web by Feedspot and it finished second in Construction Junkie’s North American best podcast competition. 

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