HC Consulting helps businesses to use information technology to increase their profitability, reduce costs, improve their business processes, and better serve their customers.  HCC provides freelance editing and writing services, consulting, training, strategy formulation and e-services.  Our focus is on meeting your needs and helping you be successful.

Founder, Carol Howard is an author, editor, consultant, and educator. She has been an IT professor for almost 20 years.  Carol’s recent publications include the Encyclopedia of Distance Learning (Idea Group Publishing 2005 - 2nd edition will be published in 2008), Winning the Net Game: Becoming Profitable Now that the Web Rules Have Changed (Entrepreneur Press June 2002), The Design and Management of Effective Distance Learning Programs (Idea-Group Publishing January 2002), Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning  (forthcoming, IGI 2004), a chapter in the book, Distance Learning Technologies (IGI 2001).

She is currently an Associate Professor at TUI University and consultant.  Prior to joining TUIU, she was on the faculty of Emory University's Goizueta Business School and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.  Carol holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of California, Irvine, where she received honors for her teaching and research.  Carol has headed projects for both small and large businesses including MCI Corporation, North Fulton Community Charities, Thomas Lunn, Inc., Toll Bros., Inc., and the State of Delaware.