Mend em has put succintly what I was trying to do in my first post. Similarly the word count is very restrictive and again, as I said, you would need to write it around a set of assumptions and then caveat your conclusion that it would only apply if the assumptions were true.
Miss PN had a similarly broad treatise plan which her tutor cut to a fraction of the original.
You could do 5000 words on capability gap (if any) alone.