A cohort data manager and member organizations may choose to employ internet technologies to maintain anonymity, report results or facilitate communication among cohort members in different geographical areas. Cohort creation is intended to foster a network of innovative organizations that can lend support to one another as they pursue their individual change efforts. Organizations that are not part of a cohort will not be able to study their scores in comparison with peer organizations for benchmarking purposes. Select a facilitator trained in POET s methodology. This sequence of group discussion and individual reflection is repeated until the group completes all 100 POET questions which usually takes five to six hours.
POET differs from other organizational capacity assessment tools in several ways.