How to Address Opportunities for ISO 9001:2015

I am working with a company to assist them in transitioning from the old standard to the new one. I have identified the risks that and will address them through the use of an FMEA analysis. Likewise, I have also identified opportunities through the use of SWOT, but how would I go about helping the organization figure out which opportunities it should address? Thanks in advance

 

I would look at a combination of likelihood of success, impact to the org. and management time required. You could use a 1-5 scale.

 

Let's say that I have a Document Control process. This process is using a manual approach in review, approval and distribution. Then we have identified that there's an opportunity to automate the process. Should I need to help my organization to figure out if we will act on this opportunity among other opportunities? Can your organization just decide on what opportunities you need to act on? If you want to have some prioritization scheme like the FMEA, you may need to develop your own criteria (as Golfman25 suggested). But you can have a simpler approach by just presenting the opportunities to your management and let them decide which among the opportunities you need to address on a particular time frame (this month, quarter or year).

 

" May I ask, when you say "I did this and I did that", are you the one who has done these things? If so, I'd ask you to completely revisit what you are doing and STOP... "

To quote my external auditor while he was chewing my ass off about that approach, " attempting to do top management's job for them ".

 

In my opinion if the opportunities are identified then must be addressed by the management and can be divided into SHORT TERM,MID TERM and LONG TERM target dates. As per the severity, scale and likelihood the categorization and target date can be fixed.This could be done through the Risk and Opportunity register and can be discussed with management in MRM.
I hope it will help.