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What kind of problem are you being asked to solve? Who has asked you to solve it? Have they given you a formal charter? Has the charter been explicitly phrased? Analysis through subterfuge rarely works in most organizations. If you are trying to start the analysis of a problem by packaging it as something else to your stakeholders, you will probably fail in the long run anyway. Seeking an extensive charter that gives you carte blanche is usually quite difficult as well. The middle ground is that you obtain a charter to solve a specific problem from stakeholders who can actually implement your solution if required. If your stakeholders do not have the charter to implement solutions, try and involve individuals in the process who can as additional stakeholders. When starting a new initiative, it's also important to keep the number of stakeholders as low as possible.
