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The Fortune 500 represents the public companies in
the United States with the largest revenues, as
ranked annually by Fortune magazine. For better or for
worse, the 500 has seen it all – mergers and acquisitions,
cultural evolutions, the rise of the Internet, globalization,
bankruptcy, and fraud. Amid all these changes, and sometimes
because of them, the Fortune 500 companies have
experienced significant financial growth.
Between 1987
and 2005, total revenues for these businesses grew more
than 450 percent – from $1.9 trillion to $9.1 trillion.
During that same period, the business process improvement
methodology Six Sigma contributed to the performance
of many of these companies.
Figure 1: Growth in Six Sigma Deployments
Table 1: Deployment Scope of the
Fortune 500 Six Sigma Companies in 2005
Table 2: Six Sigma Companies
by Rank in the Fortune 500
Table 3: Six Sigma Savings as a Percentage of Annual Revenue
Table 4: 2006 Six Sigma Saturation by Industry
Sidebar: What’s in a Number? Our Methodology
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