Application Features
The JustOrg Design application is a powerful, fully integrated set of all tools necessary for enabling the practice of strategic alignment within and across justice-committed organizations.
Our comprehensive organizational design software is built specifically for justice-committed organizations. Our platform helps your organization sustain a practice of aligning strategy, structure, and decision-making to help you achieve your purpose with clarity, focus, and adaptability. Below is a detailed list of key features designed to help your organization sustain alignment while significantly reducing the cognitive and psychic load traditionally associated with executing strategy.
Strategy Creation, Sharing, and Iteration
Strategy Builder/Manager
Craft and refine your organizational strategies to make them clear and visible to everyone–always. Our collaborative tools guide you through best practices in strategy development, helping your teams to create a cohesive, actionable plan. Within the system, your leadership team can make high-level strategies even more accessible by translating them into concrete priorities, making it simple to cascade your vision throughout the organization. The Strategy Builder/Manager doesn't just store your strategy—it keeps it alive by connecting it to day-to-day decisions and actions. As your organization learns and grows, use our data-driven insights to iteratively refine your strategy, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and strategic thinking.
Strategic Priority Management
Bridge the gap between lofty goals and on-the-ground execution. Our Strategic Priority Management feature allows you to break down your overarching strategy into tangible, actionable priorities. These priorities serve as a roadmap for your teams, ensuring that every action taken is in service of your larger purpose. By clearly defining strategic priorities, you create a shared sense of direction and accountability, propelling your organization forward with focus and intention.
Design, Manage, and Empower Structure
Structure (Table) Manager
Design your organization for efficacy and alignment. The Table/Structure Manager allows you to create a flexible, strategy-aligned structure composed of purposeful teams (which we call "Tables"). For each Table, you'll clearly define its purpose, decision-making scope, key deliverables, and team composition—all explicitly linked to your strategies. This strategic visibility helps everyone understand how their work contributes to the bigger picture. As your strategies evolve, easily adapt your organizational structure to maintain alignment, and leverage the full potential of your talent by enabling fluid movement between Tables based on strengths and development goals.
Organization Design View
Visualize your organization's structure and strategy alignment at-a-glance. This dynamic view offers a real-time snapshot of your organization's current purpose, strategies, cross-functional teams, and functional groups. Ensure everyone has an up-to-date understanding of your organization's intentional design through this visual representation, which updates instantly based on actual organizational activities.
Board and Community Member Participation
Include and amplify the voices of board members and key stakeholders with our Board and Community Member Participation feature. Easily include board and community representatives on relevant cross-functional tables, ensuring their perspectives are integrated into your strategic sensemaking and decision-making. This feature allows you to collaborate with community partners in an organized, intentional way, strengthening relationships and improving the relevance and effectiveness of your work.
Strategy Activation and Decision-Making
Table Planner
Turn strategy into action with our powerful Table Planner. Where the Meeting Space (see below) is optimized to ensure that members of a Table are able to focus on and execute strategic work in the moment, the Table Planner serves as the central hub for ensuring that all table-related meetings are always purposeful and focused on driving execution. This feature helps teams plan their work, track strategic progress, maintain shared and individual accountability, and stay aligned with organizational strategies.
The Table Planner serves as a central hub for all table-related, actions, logged decisions, individual commitments, and documents, providing easy access to critical information and fostering continuity between meetings. It also helps members to break down complex initiatives into manageable actions, making big goals feel achievable. By connecting day-to-day work directly to strategic priorities, teams stay in sync as they drive execution - all while maintaining a clear view of how their efforts contribute to the bigger picture. The Table Planner gives teams the structured foundation they need to confidently transform their vision into measurable results, without getting bogged down by fragmented information.
In short, the Table Planner is where members maintain a clear and current understanding of:
Why does the Table exist?
What, specifically, have we been asked to do?
What are we working on and when - what's our plan?
What have we done (completed actions)?
What have we decided or what will we decide (proposals)?
What are our open individual commitments?
What and where are our important documents?
Meeting Space
Vastly improve the quality of meetings whether your teams convene in-person, remotely, or hybrid. Our Meeting Space feature helps teams manage all aspects of effective meetings—from strong agendas to well-captured decisions to follow-up communications. By ensuring continuity and preparation between meetings, you'll maximize engagement and productivity. With built-in best practices and resources, you'll foster a strong meeting culture that drives strategy activation and inclusive collaboration.
Capture Board & Sensemaking
Unlock your team's collective intelligence with our Capture Board & Sensemaking feature. This digital collaboration space allows teams to brainstorm and build upon ideas simultaneously. As ideas flow, use our upvoting and prioritization tools to uncover patterns and insights. The ability to clarify and modify ideas in real-time ensures that your team's thinking evolves collaboratively. When the session ends, easily export your boards and sense-making outcomes to meeting notes, ensuring that valuable insights are captured and actionable.
Group Voting
Make inclusive, transparent decisions with our Group Voting feature. Whether you're making decisions in real-time during a meeting or preparing proposals in advance, our flexible voting system ensures that all voices are heard. Choose from consent, consensus, or majority voting methods to best suit your organization's culture and the decision at hand. The collaborative voting process promotes honest feedback while maintaining transparency. After voting rounds, hold focused workshops to discuss results and modify proposals as needed. Once finalized, seamlessly convert proposals into logged decisions that are visible and actionable across the system in a few clicks, ensuring follow-through and accountability.
Realtime Decision Capture
Foster a culture of clear, collaborative decision-making with our Realtime Decision Capture feature. Implement standardized workflows for proposing and documenting decisions, ensuring that the right stakeholders are always included through flexible voting options. By tying each decision to relevant strategies, priorities, values, and impacted teams, you create a rich context that helps everyone understand the rationale behind choices. All decisions are stored in a centralized repository, making it easy to reference past decisions and track their outcomes. Over time, gain valuable insights into your decision-making patterns, identifying areas for improvement and learning.
Org-wide Decision Manager
Transform decision-making from a point-in-time event to an ongoing, strategic process. Our Org-wide Decision Manager allows you to organize decisions using custom tags and archiving, keeping your focus on active, relevant choices. For each decision, access full context, notes, and impacts in one place, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. Powerful search and filtering capabilities make it easy to find and reference past decisions, informing future planning. Use tags to create custom workflows that drive communication and execution, turning decisions into action. By centralizing and activating your organization's choices, you'll improve consistency, follow-through, and strategic alignment across all levels.
Support Features to Improve Experience
Your Dashboard
Stay on top of your commitments and your teams' progress with Your Dashboard. This personalized hub gives you a single view of all your commitments across the organization, helping you manage your time and priorities effectively. See at a glance the key actions each of your tables is currently focused on, ensuring you're always prepared for upcoming discussions. Quick access to your upcoming meetings keeps you organized and ready to contribute meaningfully to each session. Your Dashboard turns the complexity of organizational work into a clear, actionable overview tailored just for you.
Values Capture
Ensure your organization's values are more than just words on a wall. The Values Capture feature allows you to link each decision to the specific values it advances, creating a tangible record of how your choices reflect your principles in practice. By keeping values top of mind during group decision-making, you reinforce their importance and create a culture of intentional, values-driven action. Over time, gain insights into how consistently your choices align with your stated values, allowing for reflection and course-correction if needed.
Reporting
Turn data into actionable insights with our comprehensive Reporting feature. Visualize your organizational structure, strategic alignment, and decision-making patterns to gain a holistic understanding of your operations. Generate easy-to-understand reports to keep stakeholders informed and engaged. Because our system compiles data from actual usage, you'll save time and gain authentic insights into how your organization really functions. Use these insights to identify areas for optimization in your strategy, structure, and processes, driving continuous improvement across your organization.
JustOrg Design empowers justice-committed organizations to operationalize their purpose effectively. Our comprehensive platform aligns strategy, structure, and decision-making, enabling you to achieve your purpose with clarity and adaptability. By integrating these powerful features into your daily operations, you'll create a sustainable practice of strategic alignment.
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