Methods for creating, arranging, and leveraging an ad-hoc collection of heterogeneous organization components

A method for creating, arranging, and leveraging an ad-hoc collection of heterogeneous organization components, the method comprising the steps of:

• displaying an organization hierarchy application comprising an organization component view in a graphical user interface to a user, the organization component view comprising a first organization component;
• displaying, in the graphical user interface, a scratchpad affordance associated with a scratchpad;
• detecting, by the organizational hierarchy application, an update to the scratchpad based on an input from the user associated with a first organization component of the one or more organization components and the scratchpad affordance;
• updating the scratchpad based at least in part on the input;
• presenting to the user contextual actions based at least in part on the input, wherein the contextual actions are associated with the organization components;
• generating a notification comprising a component identifier associated with the first organization component and the scratchpad;
• and
• determining a geo-location of the first organization component in the scratchpad container based at least in part on the scratchpad addition input, and wherein the notification further comprises the geo-location.