Norwich chief executive Neil Doncaster maintains there has already been interest from several "high calibre individuals" to become the club's new manager.
Peter Grant left the Canaries by mutual consent on Tuesday evening, just under a year into the job, after their horrendous start to the new season.
The Norfolk side are currently third from bottom of the Coca-Cola Championship following the 1-0 defeat to fellow strugglers QPR which stretched their recent goal drought to six matches.
However, Doncaster revealed there have nevertheless been no shortage of potential suitors to the Carrow Road hotseat, with former Wigan boss Paul Jewell an early front-runner with bookmakers.
"There are a lot of high calibre individuals who have expressed an interest in this position and that is not surprising," said Doncaster.
"However, our position in the league table is just one of the factors that makes this appointment so important. We are not naive enough to think that there is a perfect manager out there. Certain managers are right at certain times for certain clubs."
Doncaster, though, would not be drawn on which names would soon make up Norwich's shortlist, some 12 months after sacking Nigel Worthington, the man who had led them into the Premier League in 2004.
"Speculation about individuals at this stage is not helpful and we won't engage in it," the Norwich chief executive said.
"We are keen to make an appointment as soon as we can - but we are certainly not going to be rushing it purely because we have got an AGM coming up next Thursday."
Doncaster added: "Some people look for blame in these situations and the board has a collective responsibility, but we are now focused on making the right appointment to take Norwich forward. The board will be busy identifying the attributes that it believes the club need to take us forward and looking at all possible candidates out there. Experience is one of the attributes we will be looking for. Peter clearly wasn't experienced as a manager."
Doncaster, meanwhile, rejected suggestions majority shareholder Delia Smith was set to sell her controlling stake in the club.
Reports suggested the television chef and husband Michael Wynn-Jones were close to selling their shares to fellow directors Andrew and Sharon Turner - Canaries fans who own a multi-million pound mortgage-lending company.
But Doncaster believes the couple - who took control in 1996 after the departure of former chairman Robert Chase - are set to stay at Carrow Road and help choose a new manager.
He said: "I've learnt in football to never make any predictions about the future and I'm not going to start that now, but certainly I have no reason to believe whatsoever that there is any truth in that sort of speculation. I have no doubt that Delia and Michael and the rest of the board have the best interests of the football club totally at heart and that will remain the case."
Jim Duffy will take caretaker charge of the club until a new manager can be found, with the Canaries' next fixture at home to Bristol City on October 20 following the international break.
