The brainstorming tools you need

I'm not even sure how effective brainstorming is in the modern business context of meetings and meetings and calls and calls, but if you're going to brainstorm -- let's at least do it right.

It is important to talk about brainstorming tools, but here's the basic deal with brainstorming: it's a fairly fraught concept. The way most companies/organizations work, the idea of 'brainstorming' means you take a bunch of people, harried and hassled from other meetings and conference calls, and you shove them into a room together. Some target-whiffin…