Our consulting group usually budgets about 345 hours over this period of time. Additionally, we estimate that the Quality Manager will spend an additional 1150 hours during the implementation time period to implement and train others within their company. On average, we estimate that each company employee will receive about 15 hours of Quality training during the implementation period.
Employees earn wages and wages costs money.
Many governments do provide training incentives and or other forms of financial assistance to help companies attain ISO compliance. However, note that as a standard practice we charge a flat rate for the entire implementation project so that our client knows exactly what our total fees will be. No, not in our experience. In fact we usually find it easier to implement in a larger company. This is primarily because larger companies tend to be more structured than smaller ones.