It all depends on the size of the company, time reserves in the company as well as the size and competencies of the research team.

Assuming that the research team is offered an unlimited access to the company, it is possible to collect as mych as a couple of thousand of questionnaires within 2-3 days. A lot depends on the level of employee dispersion. In dispersed companies one can use mail or electronic questionnaires. Focus groups usually take about 2h, so conducting 4 with 12 employees each would take appx. 8h. It means that within a week time we can learn personally the opinion of 250 persons without bringing chaos to the company. Document analysis can take a couple of days, assuming that everything is collected and ready (unfortunately, that process can take up to a couple of weeks). Simply put, it is possible to diagnose a company with a couple of thousand employees within a month in order to gain a reasonable image of company's problems and possible cures. 

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