Is There a Time for a Brainstorming Session?

When do you know it's the right time and place for a brainstorming session? That's probably a question I'm really asking. Chris: To me, research would probably be an input to brainstorming insights that we know about the problem that we learned from research. Noam Chomsky developed his theories of learning when he was at MIT after the Second World War. He says one of the best ways doing it is just to get a lot of information in your head.