SESSION ABSTRACT: It is easy to take potshots at the instructional systems development (ISD) model, but the presenters go beyond griping by providing a set of innovative principles for producing training packages that are faster, cheaper and better. Based on 40 years of field work in 24 different countries and theoretical framework from creativity, self-adaptive systems, and complexity theory, Thiagi's CCCC (continuous, creative, concurrent, co-design) model has been successfully used on hard and soft-skill training topics. Principles explored in this session include authentic assessment as the core for training, open questions and innovative assessment techniques, interactive strategies that wrap around different content resources, blend of training with performance improvement interventions, co-design through learners taking on the roles of trainers and evaluators, and reusable templates for presenting content and creating activities. This walk-the-talk interactive session uses several case examples from corporate training and features a live case that involves the co-design of a training package right before your eyes. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Identify the limitations of the traditional ISD model in working with new types of content, new technologies, new generation of learners, and new corporate realities. Determine alternatives that offer faster, cheaper, and better training design. Select, adapt, and use interactive strategies that incorporate existing content from books, websites, mediated materials, and the subject-matter expert?s brain. Use strategies that require participants to take on the roles of designers, trainers, and evaluators and demonstrate the increased effectiveness of these strategies.