Consumers will purchase from your business, or employees will go the extra mile to contribute to yoursuccess, only if they believe that you care about their interests.
If you have staff, train them and let them know important this data is to not only to the growth and success of your businesses but to their own decision making.
In this vision of the future networks will disband just as fast as they came together so learning to work with yourself and only yourself is going to be crucial to yoursuccess.
And if (this would be a truly unrealistic haystack) the haystack were one-dimensional, so that you could only move forwards and backwards along it, your chance of success would actually be quite high, even if the direction of each step was random.