Operational data governance: Who owns data quality problems? by David Loshin via @SASsoftware

Data integration teams often find themselves in the middle of discussions where the quality of their data outputs are called into question. Without proper governance procedures in place, though, it's hard to address these accusations in a reasonable way. Here's why.

I completely agree with the second point he makes at the end of the article - far too many times I've worked on a data warehouse project where that team is concerned about the data quality far more than the source system team - to my mind that is wrong.