Interest in PIMS as an analytical approach does not appear very high in the mid-2000s if recent coverage of the subject in the technical and business press is any indication. A search of Infotrac brings just a few references from the 1990s and 1980s. The most recent book on the subject by Paul W. Farris and Michael J. Moore is largely a look backward—an attempt to assess the contribution PIMS has made to the field of management science. Looking forward, the authors analyze how the PIMS project might be structured if it were launched in the current era. Another broad study of contemporary marketing by Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz mentions a comprehensive use of PIMS by the Marketing Science Institute. The MSI study came to the not-so-startling conclusion that (in Boone's and Kurtz's words) "two of the most important factors influencing profitability were product quality and market share."
PIMS was from the outset—and apparently continues as—a "big company" methodology to measure broad strategies capable of being captured by statistical measures. The reliance of this method on concepts (and measurements) like market share performance and marketing expenditures seems to make its relevance to small business marginal at best. Small companies on average find it very difficult even to guess at their own market shares and only very rarely engage in the kinds of major marketing efforts associated with the GEs, IBMs, and Coca-Colas of the world.