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This study is part of a planning session on future enhancement of its members' competitiveness.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The survey, developed by Takala, was modified to gather feedback and opinions from top executives of ten service providers. These companies mainly provided technical services to customers. This survey consisted of six criteria or competitive priorities with a total of 31 dimensions. The analysis and computations were on both relative and global weights of the responses, derived from the analytical hierarchy process.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>Quality represented the most important competitive priority. Quality was given the highest weight of 36.4 percent, while service provision, customer\u2010focus, and know\u2010how were at 20.4, 12.9 and 12.5 percent, respectively. 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